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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crown Point, (search)
son did not follow the discomfited enemy, but built a strong military work on the site of his camp, which he called Fort William Henry. He also changed the name of Fort Lyman to Fort Edward, in compliment to the royal family; and he was rewarded for the success achieved by Lyman with a baronetcy and $20,000 to support the new title. The French strengthened their works at Crown Point, and fortified Ticonderoga. The conduct of the second campaign against Crown Point was intrusted to Gen. John Winslow (a great-grandson of Edward Winslow, governor of Plymouth), who led the expedition against the Acadians in 1755. The Earl of Loudoun was commander-in-chief of the British forces in America, and Gen. James Abercrombie (q. v.) was his lieutenant. General Winslow had collected 7,000 men at Albany before Abercrombie's arrival, with several British regiments, in June. Difficulties immediately occurred respecting military rank. These, unadjusted when Loudoun arrived, were made worse by h
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
t Falmouth (now Portland. Me.), and renew the treaty made a quarter of a century before......Oct. 16, 1749 Small-pox again visits Boston......1752 [Of 2,100 persons inoculated with it, only thirty-one died: of the 5,550 taken without inoculation, 514 died.] Governor Shirley, now past the age of sixty, returns to Massachusetts, bringing with him a young French Catholic girl as his wife......1753 Expedition against the French in Nova Scotia sails from Boston under command of Gen. John Winslow......May 20, 1755 Acadians, or French neutrals, at Grand Pre on the northwestern coast of Nova Scotia, are carried away and scattered among the English colonists......September, 1755 Governor Shirley, being recalled, sails for England......Sept. 25, 1756 Thomas Pownall appointed governor......Aug. 3, 1757 Sir William Pepperell commissioned lieutenant-general of the Massachusetts forces......1757 Louisburg again besieged and taken by the English......June 2–July 26, 1758
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
Block Island incorporated by the General Assembly, and at the request of the inhabitants named New Shoreham......Nov. 6, 1672 King Philip's War opens by an Indian massacre at Swanze, Mass.......June 24, 1675 Troops repulsed by King Philip, intrenched in a swamp at Pocasset, and he withdraws into Massachusetts......July 18, 1675 First event of King Philip's War in Rhode Island is the massacre of fifteen persons in Bull's garrisoned house at South Kingston about Dec. 15, 1675. Governor Winslow attacks the fort of the Narragansets in a swamp at South Kingston, and after about three hours fighting fires the fort and wigwams......Dec. 19, 1675 Warwick destroyed by Indians......March 16, 1676 Canonchet, chief of the Narragansets, captured, refuses to ransom his life by making peace, is turned over for execution to friendly Indians, who send his head as a token of love and loyalty to the commissioners at Hartford......April 4, 1676 Massacre in a cedar swamp near Warwick
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winslow, John 1702-1774 (search)
Winslow, John 1702-1774 Military officer; born in Plymouth, Mass.. May 27, 1702; was the principal actor, under superior orders, in the tragedy of the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. It is said that, twenty years afterwards, nearly every person of Winslow's lineage was a refugee on the soil from which thWinslow's lineage was a refugee on the soil from which the Acadians were driven. In 1756 Winslow was commander-in-chief at Fort William Henry, Lake George, and a major-general in the expedition against Canada in 1758-59. In 1762 he was appointed presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Plymouth, Mass., and councillor and member of the Massachusetts legislature during the Stamp AWinslow was commander-in-chief at Fort William Henry, Lake George, and a major-general in the expedition against Canada in 1758-59. In 1762 he was appointed presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Plymouth, Mass., and councillor and member of the Massachusetts legislature during the Stamp Act excitement. He was an original founder of the town of Winslow, Me., in 1766. He died in Hingham, Mass., April 17, 1774. See Acadia.