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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
ps, with 2,000 men, reinforces him......March 27, 1781 Phillips and Arnold leave Portsmouth April 18 and occupy Petersburg, driving out Baron Steuben and General Nelson......April 24, 1781 General Lafayette approaches Petersburg......May 11, 1781 General Phillips dies at Petersburg......May 13, 1781 Lord Cornwallis reaches Petersburg......May 19, 1781 Cornwallis sends Arnold to New York......May, 1781 Cornwallis starts in pursuit of Lafayette......May, 1781 Lafayette and Wayne unite their forces......June 7, 1781 Cornwallis retires to Williamsburg......June 25, 1781 Lafayette attacks Cornwallis near Green Springs, and is repulsed......July 6, 1781 Cornwallis crosses the James and reaches Portsmouth......July 9, 1781 Cornwallis retires with his army to Yorktown......Aug. 4, 1781 General Lafayette at the forks of the Pamunky and Mattaponey......Aug. 13, 1781 American and French army starts for Yorktown, Va., from the Hudson River......Aug. 25, 17
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Rensselaer, Solomon 1774-1852 (search)
Van Rensselaer, Solomon 1774-1852 Military officer; born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1774; was a son of Henry Killian Van Rensselaer; entered the military service as cornet of cavalry in 1792, and in the battle of Fallen Timbers, fought by Solomon Van Rensselaer. Wayne, Aug. 20, 1794, was shot through the lungs. From 1801 to 1810 he was adjutant-general of New York militia. He was lieutenant-colonel of New York volunteers in 1812, and commanded the troops that attacked those of the British at Queenston, Oct. 13 of that year. At the landing-place he received four wounds, and had to be carried back to Lewiston. From 1819 to 1822 he was a member of Congress, and from 1822 until 1839 postmaster at Albany. He published a Narrative of the affair at Queenston (1836). He died in Albany, N. Y., April 23, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Victor, Orville James 1827- (search)
Victor, Orville James 1827- Author; born in Sandusky, O., Oct. 23, 1827; graduated at the Theological Institute, Norwalk, O., in 1847; edited the Cosmopolitan art journal in 1856-61; The biographical Library; American battles series; American tales series, etc. His publications include History of the Southern rebellion; History of American conspiracies; Lives of John Paul Jones, Israel Putnam, Anthony Wayne, Ethan Allen, Winfield Soott; and Garibaldi for the Great Americans series; and Incidents and anecdotes of the War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
e could find, with which he mounted about 600 cavalry, whom he sent after Lafayette, then not far distant from Richmond, with 3,000 men, waiting for the arrival of Wayne, who was approaching with Pennsylvania troops. The marquis fell slowly back, and at a ford on the North Anne he met Wayne with 800 men. Cornwallis had pursued himWayne with 800 men. Cornwallis had pursued him as far as Hanover Court-house, from which place the earl sent Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, with his loyalist corps, the Queen's Rangers, to capture or destroy stores in charge of Steuben at the junction of the Ravenna and Fluvanna rivers. In this he failed. Tarleton had been detached, at the same time, to capture Governor Jeffer-property to the amount of $15,000,000 was destroyed and 30,000 slaves were carried away. The British, in their retreat, had been closely followed by Lafayette, Wayne, and Steuben, and were not allowed a minute's rest until they reached Williamsburg, where they were protected by their shipping. The convention to consider the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
some of the friends of Gates in Congress wrote and spoke disparagingly of Washington as a commander while he was on his march to meet Howe (August, 1777). John Adams, warped by his partiality for Gates, wrote, with a singular indifference to facts, concerning the relative strength of the two armies: I wish the Continental army would prove that anything can be done. I am weary with so much insipidity. I am sick of Fabian systems. My toast is, A short and violent war. After the defeat of Wayne that followed the disaster at the Brandywine, the friends of Gates in Congress renewed their censures of Washington, and John Adams exclaimed, O Heaven, grant us one great soul. One leading mind would extricate the best cause from that ruin which seems to await it. And after the repulse of the British before forts Mercer and Mifflin (October, 1777), Adams exclaimed: Thank God, the glory is not immediately due to the commander-in-chief, or idolatry and adulation would have been so excessive
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wayne, Anthony 1745- (search)
Wayne, Anthony 1745- Military officer; born in Easttown, Chester co., Pa., Jan. 1, 1745. His gure in Gold medal awarded by Congress to General Wayne. 1774-75; and in September of the latter yte of thanks and a gold medal. In June, 1781, Wayne joined Lafayette in Virginia, where he performer the surrender, the Pennsylvania line, under Wayne, marched to South Carolina, and their commandeWayne took possession of Drawing-room of General Wayne's House. the city, and of the province of y immediate hostilities against the frontiers, Wayne marched into the Northwestern Territory in the Maumee Rapids, called Fort Miami, or Maumee. Wayne, with a force ample to destroy the Indians in would lay down their weapons. They refused. Wayne then advanced to the head of the rapids, and ae dead warriors were found with British arms. Wayne laid waste their country, and at the middle ofy of peace. Brave to the verge of rashness, Wayne received the name of Mad Anthony. Yet he was [6 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wayne, Fort, attack on (search)
Wayne, Fort, attack on Forts Wayne and Harrison, the former at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, where they formed the Maumee, and the latter on the Wabash, were strongholds of the Americans in the Northwest in 1812. General Proctor, in command at Fort Maiden, resolved to reduce them, with the assistance of Tecumseh, whom Brock had commissioned a brigadier-general. Major Muir, with British regulars and Indians, was to proceed up the Maumee Valley to co-operate with other Indians, and Sept. 1 was appointed as the day when they should invest Fort Wayne. The garrison consisted of only seventy men under Capt. James Rhea. The Indians prosecuted raids in other directions to divert attention from Forts Wayne and Harrison and prevent their being reinforced. A scalping-party fell upon the Pigeon-roost settlement Map of Fort Wayne and vicinity. in Scott county, Ind. (Sept. 3), and during the twilight they killed three men, five women, and sixteen children. Si
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wells, William 1770- (search)
Wells, William 1770- Military officer; born in Kentucky, presumably in 1770; was taken prisoner by the Miami Indians when twelve years old and became the adopted son of Little Turtle, their chief. In 1790, when the Indians became hostile, he deserted them and was made a captain of scouts in Gen. Anthony Wayne's army; was in the United States army till peace was concluded in 1795, when he became an Indian agent and justice of the peace. In 1812, when he learned that the evacuation of Fort Dearborn (now Chicago) was contemplated, he hastened there with thirty friendly Indians for the purpose of forming a body-guard to the people on their way to Fort Wayne, for he felt certain that an attempt would be made to massacre them shortly after leaving the fort. On Aug. 15, the people left the place preceded by Captain Wells and fifteen Indians, the rest of the Miamis bringing up the rear. They had gone little more than a mile when they were attacked by 500 Indians, who indiscriminately
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkinson, James 1757- (search)
and made secretary to the board of war, of which Gates was president. Being implicated in Conway's cabal he resigned the secretaryship, and in July, 1779, was made clothier-general to the army. At the close of the war he settled in Lexington, Ky., and engaged in mercantile transactions. In 1791-92 he commanded, as lieutenant-colonel of infantry, an expedition against the Indians on the Wabash, and was made brigadier-general in 1792. He was distinguished in command of the right wing of Wayne's army on the Maumee in 1794. In 1796-98 and 1800-12 he was general-in-chief of the army. In December, 1803, as joint-commissioner with Governor Claiborne, he received Louisiana from the French; and from 1805 to 1807 was governor of Louisiana Territory. Wilkinson remained at the head of the Southern Department until his entanglement with Burr caused him to be court-martialled in 1811, when he was honorably acquitted. In 1812 he was brevetted major-general, United States army, and was mad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winnebago Indians, (search)
ck to Green Bay, where they were numerous and powerful, and the terror of the neighboring Algonquians. Early in the seventeenth century there was a general confederation of the tribes in the Northwest against the Winnebagoes. They were driven to a place where they lost 500 of their number, and afterwards the Illinois reduced them to a very small tribe; but they remained very turbulent. Until the conquest of Canada they were with the French, and after that with the English, until beaten by Wayne, when they became a party to the treaty at Greenville, in 1795. With Tecumseh they gave help to the British in the War of 1812. Afterwards, for many years, until the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, there were continual collisions and irritations between the Winnebagoes and white people on the frontiers. They ceded their lands in Wisconsin and became lawless and roving bands. They had reservations (from which they were removed from time to time) on the head-waters of the Missis
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