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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
liance against the Serapis (off coast of England）Sept. 23 1779 American fleet captured the Scarborough (off coast of England）Sept. 23 1779 French fleet attacked Savannah (forced by the British to withdraw)Oct. 9, 1779 War with the Indians. Miami RiverOct. 19 and 22, St. Clair's DefeatNov. 4, 1791 Fort St. ClairNov. 6, 1792 Near Fort St. ClairOct. 17, 1793 Fort RecoveryJune 30, 1794 Maumee Rapids (Fallen Timber)Aug. 20, 1794 TippecanoeNov. 7, 1811 War of 1812-15. Fort MackinawJuly 1liance against the Serapis (off coast of England）Sept. 23 1779 American fleet captured the Scarborough (off coast of England）Sept. 23 1779 French fleet attacked Savannah (forced by the British to withdraw)Oct. 9, 1779 War with the Indians. Miami RiverOct. 19 and 22, St. Clair's DefeatNov. 4, 1791 Fort St. ClairNov. 6, 1792 Near Fort St. ClairOct. 17, 1793 Fort RecoveryJune 30, 1794 Maumee Rapids (Fallen Timber)Aug. 20, 1794 TippecanoeNov. 7, 1811 War of 1812-15. Fort MackinawJuly
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Celoron de Bienville (search)
ake formal possession of the surrounding country in the name of the King of France. Contrecoeur, afterwards in command at Fort Duquesne, and Coulon de Villiers accompanied him as chief lieutenants. Celoron was provided with a number of leaden tablets, properly inscribed, to bury at different places as a record of pre-occupation by the French. The expedition left Lachine on June 15, ascended the St. Lawrence, crossed Lake Ontario, arrived at Niagara July 6, coasted some distance along the southern shores of Lake Erie, and then made an overland journey to the head-waters of the Alleghany River. Following that stream to its junction with the Monongahela, they went down the Ohio to the mouth of the Great Miami, below Cincinnati, proclaiming French sovereignty, and burying six leaden tablets at as many different places. From the mouth of the Miami they made an overland journey to Lake Erie, and reached Fort Niagara Oct. 19, 1749. The place and date of Celoron's death are uncertain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar, Josiah 1753-1813 (search)
Indians were fostered for a political purpose. The Northwestern tribes, encouraged by the British agents, insisted upon re-establishing the Fort Washington, on the site of Cincinnati. Ohio River as the Indian boundary. Attempts to make a peaceable arrangement were unsuccessful. The Indians would listen to no terms; and in September, 1790, General Harmar led more than 1,000 volunteers from Fort Washington (now Cincinnati) into the Indian country around the head-waters of the Maumee (or Miami), to chastise the hostile Indians. He did not succeed. He found the Indians near the head of the Maumee, at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, late in October, 1790. Four hundred men were detached to attack them, of whom sixty were regulars, under Major Wyllys. These reached the Maumee after sunrise on Oct. 23. Militia under Major Hall proceeded to pass around the Indian village at the head of the Maumee, and assist, in their rear, an attack of the main body on their
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Jonathan 1748- (search)
Hart, Jonathan 1748- Military officer; born in Kensington, Conn., in 1748; graduated at Yale in 1768; enlisted in the Continental army, serving throughout the War of the Revolution, attaining the rank of captain. After the war he entered the regular army as captain; was promoted to major. He participated in various campaigns against the Indians under Generals Scott, Harmar, and St. Clair. In the battle with the Miami Indians, while protecting the rear of the army, he and his command were overwhelmed by superior numbers and almost all were killed. He was the author of the Native inhabitants of the Western country, which appeared in vol. III. of the Transactions of the American Society. He died on Miami River, O., Nov. 4, 1791.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ottawa Indians, (search)
w passed over to Michigan; and in the war that resulted in the conquest of Canada the Ottawas joined the French. Pontiac (q. v.), who was at the head of the Detroit family, engaged in a great conspiracy in 1763, but was not joined by those in the north of the peninsula. At that time the whole tribe numbered about 1,500. In the Revolution and subsequent hostilities they were opposed to the Americans, but finally made a treaty of peace at Greenville, in 1795, when one band settled on the Miami River. In conjunction with other tribes, they ceded their lands around Lake Michigan to the United States in 1833 in exchange for lands in Missouri, where they flourished for a time. After suffering much trouble, this emigrant band obtained a reservation in the Indian Territory, to which the remnant of this portion of the family emigrated in 1870. The upper Michigan Ottawas remain in the North, in the vicinity of the Great Lakes. There are some in Canada, mingled with other Indians. Roman
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Clair, Arthur 1734-1818 (search)
yed some villages of Kickapoos, and made his way to the Falls of the Ohio, opposite Louisville. These forays caused the Indians to fight more desperately for their country. Congress then prepared to plant forts in the Northwestern Territory, and in September there were 2,000 troops at Fort Washington, under the immediate Map of the Northwestern Territory. command of Gen. Richard Butler. With General St. Clair as chief, these troops marched northward. They built Fort Hamilton, on the Miami River, 20 miles from Fort Washington, and garrisoned it. Forty-two miles farther on they built Fort Jefferson, and, when moving from that post, late in October, there were evidences that Indian scouts were hovering on their flanks. The invaders halted and encamped on a tributary of the Wabash, in Darke county, O., 100 miles north from Fort Washington (now Cincinnati). There the wearied soldiers slept (Nov. 3), without suspicion of danger near. During the night the sentinels gave warning of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Symmes, John Cleves 1780-1814 (search)
Symmes, John Cleves 1780-1814 Jurist; born on Long Island, N. Y., July 21, 1742; married a daughter of Gov. William Livingston, of New Jersey. In 1785-86 he was a member of the Continental Congress; was judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and chief-justice. Making a purchase of a vast tract of land between the Great and Little Miami rivers, Ohio, he settled there towards the close of the eighteenth century. He died in Cincinnati, Feb. 26, 1814. His daughter Anna was the wife of President William Henry Harrison. His nephew, John Cleves, born in New Symmes's monument. Jersey in 1780, was a soldier in the War of 1812, but is known as the author of the theory that the earth is hollow; habitable within, open at the poles for the admission of light, and containing within it half a dozen concentric hollow spheres, also open at their poles. He petitioned Congress to fit out an expedition to test his theory. It was first promulgated in 1818. He died in Hamilton, O., May 28,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Symmes's purchase. (search)
Symmes's purchase. Soon after the passage of the ordinance of 1787 (q. v.) for the establishment of a government northwest of the Ohio, lands in that region which had been surveyed in anticipation of this action of Congress were sold. An association called the Ohio Company (q. v.), bought 5,000,000 acres between the Muskingum and Scioto rivers, fronting on the Ohio; and John Cleves Symmes purchased 2,000,000 in the rich and beautiful region on the Ohio between the Great and Little Miami rivers, including the site of Cincinnati.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
.....1789 Hamilton county formed......Jan. 2, 1790 Fort Washington erected at Cincinnati......1790 First Masonic lodge of the West established at Marietta......1790 Whites at Big Bottom, Morgan county, massacred by Indians......1790 Gen. Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians......Sept. 30, 1790 Partially defeated near the Miami villages, the expedition fails......Oct. 22, 1790 Expedition of General St. Clair against the Indians; surprised and defeated near Miami villages (now in Darke county,......Nov. 4, 1791 [Except Braddock's, the worst defeat ever experienced in Indian warfare; of about 1,800 men he lost 800.] Benjamin Tupper, chief promoter of the settlement of Marietta, dies there......1792 First newspaper of the Northwest, the Sentinel, editor William Maxwell, appears at Cincinnati......1793 After the defeat of St. Clair, General Wayne was appointed to command against the Indians. Marching into the Indian country late in the autu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyant, Alexander H. 1836-1892 (search)
Wyant, Alexander H. 1836-1892 artist; born in Port Washington, O., Jan. 11, 1836; studied in Carlsruhe, Dusseldorf, and London; opened a studio in New York City in 1864; was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1868, and an Academician in 1869. Among his pictures are Staten Island from the Jersey Meadows; Scene on the Upper Susquehanna; Fort at New Bedford; A midsummer retreat; New England landscape; Scene on the Upper little Miami, etc. He died in New York City, Nov. 29, 1892.