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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Borgne, Lake , battle on. (search)
Borgne, Lake, battle on.
The revelations made by Jean Lafitte (q. v.) caused everybody to be vigilant at New Orleans.
Early in December, 1812. Com D. T. Patterson, in command of the naval station there, was warned, by a letter from Pensacola, of a powerful British land and naval armament in the Gulf.
He immediately sent Lieut. Thomas Ap Catesby Jones with five gunboats,. a tender, and a despatch-boat, to watch for the enemy.
Jones sent Lieutenant McKeever with two gunboats to the entrance of Mobile Bay for intelligence.
McKeever discovered the British fleet on Dec. 10.
and hastened back with the news.
In the afternoon of the same day the fleet appeared near the entrance to Lake Borgne, and Jones hastened with his flotilla towards Pass Christian, where he anchored, and waited the approach of the invaders to dispute their passage into the lake.
He was discovered by the astonished Britons on the 13th, when Admiral Cochrane, in command of the leet, gave orders for a change in t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain Lake , operations on (search)
Champlain, Lake, operations on
After the Americans left Canada in sad plight in June, 1776, Carleton, the governor of Canada and general of the forces there, appeared at the foot of Lake Champlain with a well-appointed force of 13,000 men. Only on the bosom of the lake could they advance, for there was no road on either shore.
To prevent this invasion, it was important that the Americans should hold command of its waters.
A flotilla of small armed vessels was constructed at Crown Point, and Benedict Arnold was placed in command of them as commodore.
A schooner called the Royal Savage was his flag-ship.
Carleton, meanwhile, had used great diligence in fitting out an armed flotilla at St. John for the recovery of Crown Point and Ticonderoga.
Towards the close of August, Arnold went down the lake with his fleet and watched the foe until early in October, when he fell back to Valcour Island and formed his flotilla for action without skill.
Carleton advanced, with Edward Pringle
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Erie , Lake , battle on. (search)
Erie, Lake, battle on.
Who should be masters of Lake Erie was an important question to be solved in 1813.
The United States government did not fulfil its promise to Hull to provide means for securing the naval supremacy on Lake Erie.
The necessity for such an attainment was so obvious before the close of 1812 that the government took vigorous action in the matter.
Isaac Chauncey was in command of a little squadron on Lake Ontario late
Perry's battle flag. in 1812, and Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, a zealous young naval officer, of Rhode Island, who was in command of a flotilla of gunboats on the Newport station, offered his services on the Lakes.
Chauncey desired his services, and on Feb. 17 Perry received orders from the Secretary of the Navy to report to Chauncey with all possible despatch, and to take with him to Sackett's Harbor all of the best men of the flotilla at Newport.
He sent them forward, in companies of fifty, under Sailing-Masters Almy, Champlin, and Taylor.
Jogues, Isaac 1607-
Missionary; born at Orleans, France, Jan. 10, 1607; became a Jesuit at Rouen in 1624; was ordained in 1636; and, at his own request, was immediately sent to Canada.
He was a most earnest missionary among the Indians on both sides of the Lakes.
Caught, tortured, and made a slave by the Mohawks, he remained with them until 1643, when he escaped to Albany, and was taken to Manhattan.
Returning to Europe, he was shipwrecked on the English coast.
He returned to Canada in 1646, where he concluded a treaty between the French and the Mohawks.
Visiting Lake George, he named it St. Sacrament, and, descending the Hudson River to Albany, he went among the Mohawks as a missionary, who seized and put him to death as a sorcerer, at Caughnawaga, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1646.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson , John Butler 1850 - (search)
Johnson, John Butler 1850-
Educator; born in Marlboro, O., June 11, 1850; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1878, and became a civil engineer in the United States Lake and Mississippi River surveys.
In 1883-98 he was Professor of Civil Engineering in Washington University, St. Louis.
Later he was made dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering in the University of Wisconsin.
He was director of a testing laboratory in St. Louis, where all the United States timber tests were made.
He also had charge of the index department of the journal published by the Association of Engineering Societies, and compiled two volumes of Index notes to engineering Literature.
He is author of Theory and practice of surveying; Modern framed structures; Engineering contracts and specifications; Materials of construction, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ontario , Lake , operations on (search)
Ontario, Lake, operations on
Commodore Isaac Chauncey was in command of a little squadron of armed schooners, hastily prepared, on Lake Ontario late in 1812.
The vessels were the Oneida (his flag-ship), Conquest, Growler, Pert, Scourge, Governor Tompkins, and Hamilton.
He sailed from Sackett's Harbor (Nov. 8) to intercept the British squadron, under Commodore Earl, returning to Kingston from Fort George, on the Niagara River, whither they had conveyed troops and prisoners.
Chauncey took his station near the False Ducks, a group of islands nearly due west from Sackett's Harbor.
On the afternoon of Nov. 9 he fell in with Earl's flag-ship, the Royal George.
He chased her into the Bay of Quinte, where he lost sight of her in the darkness of night.
On the following morning (Nov. 10) he captured and burned a small armed schooner, and soon afterwards espied the Royal George making her way towards Kingston.
Chauncey gave chase with most of his squadron (which had been joined by t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sun-worshippers. (search)