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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
he troops were taken through these watercourses. At the head of the bayou the active Lieutenant-Colonel Thorntoll, with a detachment, surrounded the house of General Villere, the commandant of a division of Louisiana militia, and made him prisoner; but he soon escaped, and, hastening to New Orleans, gave warning of the invasion toas speedily as possible. Coffee came first, and Carroll arrived on Dec. 22. A troop of horse under Major Hinds, raised in Louisiana, came at the same time. General Villere, soon after his capture, escaped, crossed the Mississippi, rode up its right bank on a fleet horse to a point opposite New Orleans, crossed over, and gave Jacates, Louisiana, vol. IX. Territorial Governor. Name.Term. William C. C. Claiborne 1804 to 1812 State governors. William C. C. Claiborne1812 to 1816 James Villere 1816 to 1820 Thomas B. Robertson1820 1824 H. S. Thibodeaux1824 Henry Johnson1824 to 1828 Pierre Derbigny1828 to 1829 A. Beauvwis 1829 to 1830 Jacques Dup
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
llegiance to the King of Spain. Twelve of the representatives were selected as victims. They were among the richest and most influential citizens of Louisiana. Their estates were confiscated for the benefit of the officers who tried them. Six of them were sentenced for six or ten years, or for life, and five of them—Lafreniere, his young son-in-law Noyan, Caresse, Marquis, and Joseph Milhet—were sentenced to be hanged, but, for want of such an executioner, were shot on Oct. 25, 1769. Villere, one of the twelve, did not survive the day of his arrest, and his name was declared infamous. The insult done to the King's dignity and authority in the province is repaired, reported O'Reilly; the example now given can never be effaced. So perished the first republic established in America. In the War of 1812-15. In 1814, when the British had captured the American flotilla on Lake Borgne, there seemed to Chalmette's plantation. be no obstacle to the seizure of the city of New Or