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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bates, John Coalter, 1842- (search)
Bates, John Coalter, 1842- Military officer; born in St. Charles county, Mo., Aug. 26, 1842; educated at Washington University (St. Louis). He entered the army in 1861, and served on the staff of Gen. George G. Meade from the battle of Gettysburg to the close of the war. In 1863-62 he held the rank of captain; in 1882-86 that of lieutenant-colonel: in 1886-92 that of colonel. He was president of the board which devised the present drill and firing regulations, and a member of the board which adopted the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers, and for the Santiago campaign was promoted major-general. In 1899 he was appointed military governor of Cienfuegos, Cuba. On the reorganization of the regular army in February, 1901. he was appointed one of the new brigadier-generals.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
a in 1735, is destroyed by a flood, the inhabitants remove from river bottoms to the present site......1785 New Madrid, settled as early as 1780, is laid out on an extensive scale by Col. George Morgan, of New Jersey, who had received a grant of over 12,000,000 acres of land from Spain......1788 Crozat succeeded by Don Manuel Perez as commandant-general of the post of St. Louis......1788 Zenon Trudeau succeeds Perez......1793 Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, moves to what is now St. Charles county......1795 Trudeau succeeded by Charles Dehault Delassus de Delusiere......1798 Delassus appoints Daniel Boone commandant or syndic of the Femme Osage district......1800 Maj. Amos Stoddard, agent of France for receiving upper Louisiana from the Spanish, arrives at St. Louis, and on March 9 Delassus surrenders the territory to him, and next day it is transferred to the United States, Major Stoddard in command......March 10, 1804 Missouri included in the district of Louisiana,