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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acquisition of Territory. (search)
Acquisition of Territory.
The original territory of the United States as acknowledged by the treaty with Great Britain, in 1783, consisted of the following thirteen States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
The boundaries of many of these States, as constituted by their charters, extended to the Pacific Ocean; but in practice they ceased at the Mississippi.
Beyond that river the territory belonged, by discovery and settlement, to the-King of Spain.
All the territory west of the present boundaries of the States was ceded by them to the United States in the order named: Virginia, 1784: Massachusetts, 1785; Connecticut, 1786 and 1800; South Carolina, 1787; North Carolina, 1790: Georgia, 1802.
This ceded territory comprised part of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio (see Northwest Territory)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements . (search)
Alabama, the
Confederate privateer: a British vessel, manned chiefly by British subjects at a British port; armed with British cannon, and provided with coal and other supplies from British soil.
She had no acknowledged flag, nor recognized nationality, nor any accessible port to which she might send her prizes, nor any legal tribunal to adjudge her captures.
She was commanded by Raphael Semmes, a native of Maryland, and roamed the seas, plundering and destroying vessels belonging to American citizens.
Her commander avoided contact with American armed vessels, but finally encountered the Kearsarge,
The Alabama. Capt. John A. Winslow, off Cherbourg.
France, in the summer of 1864.
On June 19 Semmes went out of the harbor of Cherbourg to fight the Kearsarge.
The Alabama was accompanied by a French frigate to a point beyond the territorial waters of France.
At a distance of 7 miles from the Cherbourg breakwater, the Kearsarge turned and made for the Confederate cruiser, when,
Alexandria,
City, port of entry, and county seat of Alexandria county, Va.; on the Potomac River, here a mile wide and providing an excellent harbor, and 6 miles below Washington, D. C. The city contains a number of high-grade educational institutions, and has important manufacturing industries.
In 1890 the population was 14,339; in 1900, 14,528.
In August, 1814, while the British were making their way across Maryland towards Washington, a portion of the British fleet, consisting of two frigates of thirty-six guns and thirty-eight guns, two rocket-ships of eighteen guns, two bomb-vessels of eight guns, and one schooner of two guns, sailed up the Potomac under the charge of Commodore Gordon, of the Sea Horse, and easily passed the guns of Fort Washington, the defenses of which the government a neglected.
The British squadron appeared before the fort (Aug. 27), when the commander blew up the magazine and fled.
The squadron passed and anchored in front of Alexandria, prepared t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Avery , Waightstill , 1745 -1821 (search)
Avery, Waightstill, 1745-1821
Lawyer; born in Groton, Conn.. May 3, 1745; studied law in Maryland.
and began its practice in Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1769.
He was prominent there among the opposers of the obnoxious measures of the British Parliament bearing on the colonies, and was one of the promoters and signers of the famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in 1775 which organized the military forces of the State: and in the summer of 1776 he joined the army, under General Rutherford, in the Cherokee country.
He was a commissioner in framing the treaty of Holston, which effected peace on the Western frontier.
Mr. Avery was active in civil affairs; and in 1779 was colonel of the county militia, serving with great zeal during the British invasion of North Carolina.
He removed to Burke county in 1781, which he represented in the State legislature many years.
He was the first State attorney-general of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ayres , Romeyn Beck , 1825 -1888 (search)
Ayres, Romeyn Beck, 1825-1888
Military officer; born in East Creek, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1825; was graduated at West Point in 1847.
He served in the artillery in the war with Mexico, and commanded a battery in the battle of Bull Run.
In October, 1861, he became chief of artillery of Gen. W. F. Smith's division, and soon afterwards of the 6th Corps.
He was in the campaign on the Peninsula, and the chief battles afterwards in Virginia and Maryland.
He served with distinction through the Richmond campaign of 1864-605; was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865; promoted to colonel of the 3d Artillery. July 18, 1879; and died in Fort Hamilton, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bacon , Nathaniel , 1642 - (search)