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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discovery of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brock , Sir Isaac , 1769 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
Navy of the United States
Continental organization.
Early in the autumn of 1775, Washington called the attention of the Continental Congress to the importance of fitting out naval vessels for the protection of the coast.
Before any definite action had been taken, Washington had fitted out five or six armed vessels at Boston to pick up some of the British store-ships and transports.
On Oct. 13, the Congress authorized the fitting out of a swift-sailing vessel to carry ten carriage-guns and a proportionate number of swivels, with eighty men, for a cruise of three months. On the same day appeared the germ of our Navy Department in a committee appointed to direct marine affairs.
This consisted of Silas Deane, John Langdon, and Christopher Gadsden.
Stephen Hopkins, Joseph Hewes, Richard Henry Lee, and John Adams were added Oct. 30.
The committee was at first styled the marine committee, and on Dec. 13 it was so modelled as to include one member from each colony represente
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.