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Stanley, Henry Morton
Explorer; born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840.
His original name was John Rawlands.
For ten years he was in the poor-house of St. Asaph, where he received a good education, and left it at the age of thirteen, became teacher of a school, and finally shipped at Liverpool as a cabin-boy for New Orleans.
There he found employment with a merchant named Stanley, who adopted him and gave him his name.
Enlisting in the Confederate army at the
Henry Morton Stanley. beginning of the Civil War, he was made prisoner, and entered the United States navy as a volunteer.
After the war he travelled in Turkey and Asia Minor, and visited Wales.
At the poor-house of St. Asaph he gave a dinner to the children, and told them that what success he had attained in life he owed to the education received there.
Returning to the United States, he was engaged in 1868, by the proprietor of the New York Herald to accompany the British expedition to Abyssinia, as correspondent.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tarleton , Sir Banastre 1754 -1833 (search)
Tarleton, Sir Banastre 1754-1833
Military officer; born in Liverpool, England, Aug. 21, 1754; purchased a commission in the
Sir Banastre Tarleton. British army (dragoons). At the beginning of the Revolutionary War he came to America, and was concerned in the capture of General Lee late in 1776.
After the evacuation of Philadelphia, 1778, he commanded a cavalry corps called the British Legion, and accompanied the troops that captured Charleston in May, 1780.
He was one of Cornwallis's most active officers in the Carolinas and Virginia, in 1780-81, destroying Colonel Buford's regiment at Waxhaw Creek. Tarleton's quarter was synonymous with wholesale butchery.
He was one of the prisoners at the surrender of Cornwallis.
He published a history of his campaign in 1780-81.
He died in England, Jan. 23, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thompson , George 1804 -1878 (search)
Thompson, George 1804-1878
Reformer; born in Liverpool, England, June 18, 1804; came to the United States at the request of William Lloyd Garrison to aid the abolition cause; addressed large meetings in the Northern States, and through his efforts 150 anti-slavery societies were formed.
He was threatened by mobs several times, and once, when in Boston, escaped death by fleeing in a small boat to an English vessel, on which he sailed to England.
His visit created much excitement and was denounced by President Jackson in a message to Congress.
He revisited the United States in 1851, and again during the Civil War, when a public reception was given in his honor at which President Lincoln and his cabinet were present.
In 1870 a testimonial fund was raised for him by his admirers in the United States and in England.
He died in Leeds, England, Oct. 7, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waddell , James Iredell 1824 -1886 (search)
Waddell, James Iredell 1824-1886
Naval officer; born in Pittsboro, N. C., in 1824; graduated at the United States Naval Academy; resigned from the navy in 1861, and entered the Confederate service in the following year; commanded the ram Louisiana at New Orleans till the engagement with Farragut's fleet, when he destroyed that vessel by blowing her up; later was ordered to England, where in 1864 he took command of the Shenandoah, with which he cruised in the Pacific Ocean, destroying vessels till Aug. 2, 1865, when he learned that Lee had surrendered more than three months before.
Returning to England he surrendered his vessel to the United States consul at Liverpool, and he and his crew were liberated.
the Shenandoah, under Captain Waddell, was the only vessel that ever carried the Confederate flag around the world.
He died in Annapolis, Md., March 15, 1886.
Wilkinson, John 1821-
Naval officer; born in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 6, 1821; joined the navy in 1837; served on the Portsmouth in 1845-46; promoted master in June, 1850, and lieutenant in the following November.
He resigned from the National service in 1861 and joined the Confederate navy as a lieutenant; was executive officer of the ram Louisiana, which was captured by Farragut in the spring of 1862, when New Orleans fell; was exchanged in the following August and appointed an agent to buy and load a vessel with war materials in England.
He purchased the Giraffe, with which he ran the blockade at Wilmington, N. C. In 1864 he commanded the Chickamauga, with which he destroyed numerous merchant vessels, and in the following year commanded the blockade runner Chameleon, in which he sailed to Liverpool, where she was seized by the United States governemnt after the war. Wilkinson published The narrative of a blockade runner.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
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