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Alabama.
The soil of this State was first trodden by Europeans in 1540.
These were the followers of De Soto (q. v.). In 1702, Bienville.
the French governor of Louisiana, entered Mobile Bay, and built a fort and trading-house at the mouth of Dog River.
In 1711 the French founded Mobile, and there a colony prospered for a while.
Negro
State seal of Alabama. slaves were first brought into this colony by three French ships of war in 1721.
By the treaty of 1763 this region was transferred by France to Great Britain. Alabama formed a portion of the State of Georgia, but in 1798 the country now included in the States of Alabama and Mississippi was organized as a Territory called Mississippi.
After the Creeks disappeared the region of Alabama was rapidly settled by white people, and in 1819 it entered the Union as a State.
The slave population increased more rapidly than the white.
In the Democratic National Convention that was held at Charleston in 1860 the delegates of Alaba
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbuthnot , Marriott , -1794 (search)
Arbuthnot, Marriott, -1794
British naval officer; born about 1711; became a post-captain in 1747.
From 1775 to 1778 he was naval commissioner resident at Halifax,
Marriott Arbuthnot. Nova Scotia.
Having been raised to the rank of vice-admiral in 1779, he obtained the chief command on the American station, and was blockaded by the Count d'estaing in the harbor of New York.
In the spring of 1780 he co-operated with Sir Henry Clinton in the siege of Charleston, S. C. In February, 1793, he became admiral of the blue.
He died in London, Jan. 31, 1794.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boscawen , Edward , 1711 - (search)
Boscawen, Edward, 1711-
Naval officer; born in Cornwall, England, Aug. 19, 1711; son of Viscount Falmouth; was made a captain in the royal navy in March, 1737.
Distinguished at Porto Bello and Carthagena, he was promoted to the command of a 60-gun ship in 1744, in which he took the Media.
He signalized himself under Anson in the battle off Cape Finisterre in 1747, and against the French in the East Indies as rear-admiral the next year.
He made himself master of Madras, and returned to England in 1751. Admiral of the Blue, he commanded an expedition against Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1758, with General Amherst.
In 1759 he defeated the French fleet in the Mediterranean, capturing 2,000 prisoners. For these services he was made general of the marines and member of the privy council.
Parliament also granted him a pension of $15,000 a year.
He died Jan. 10, 1761.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradstreet , John , 1711 -1774 (search)
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
Military officer; born in Harbling, England.
in 1711; was lieutenant-colonel of Pepperell's regiment in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745; and in September, the same year, he was made a captain of a regular regiment.
The following year he was appointed lieutenant-governor of St. Johns, New-foundland — a sinecure place.
Braddock ordered him to accompany Shirley to Oswego, in 1755.
as his adjutant; and in 1756 he was charged with conveying supplies to Os1711; was lieutenant-colonel of Pepperell's regiment in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745; and in September, the same year, he was made a captain of a regular regiment.
The following year he was appointed lieutenant-governor of St. Johns, New-foundland — a sinecure place.
Braddock ordered him to accompany Shirley to Oswego, in 1755.
as his adjutant; and in 1756 he was charged with conveying supplies to Oswego.
In 1757 he was appointed captain of a company in the regiment of Royal Americans; and late in the same year he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the same regiment, and deputy quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel.
He was quartermaster-general of Abercrombie's forces, with the rank of colonel, in the expedition against Ticonderoga in July, 1758; and in August he led an expedition which captured Fort Frontenac.
Bradstreet was with Amherst in his expedition against Ticonderog
Coree Indians,
A small tribe of Algonquians on the coast of upper North Carolina.
These and the Cheraws and other smaller tribes occupied lands once owned by the powerful Hatteras tribe.
They were allies of the Tuscaroras in an attack upon the English in 1711, and were defeated; and they have since disappeared from the face of the earth, and their dialect has been forgotten.
Fry, Joseph 1711-1794
Military officer; born in Andover, Mass., in April, 1711; was an ensign in the army that captured Louisburg in 1745, and a colonel in the British army at the capture of Fort William Henry by Montcalm in 1757.
He escaped and reached Fort Edward.
In 1775 Congress appointed him brigadier-general, but in the spring of 1776 he resigned on account of infirmity.
He died in Fryeburg, Me., in 1794.
Naval officer; born in Louisiana, about 1828: joined the navy in 1841; was promoted lieutenant in September, 1855; resigned when Louisiana seceded; was unable to secure a command in the Confederate navy, but was commissioned an officer in the army.
In 1873 he became captain of the Virginius, known as a Cuban war steamer.
His ship was captured by a Spanish war vessel, and he, with many of his crew, was shot as a pirate in Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 7, 1873.
See filibuster.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gridley , Richard 1711 -1796 (search)
Gridley, Richard 1711-1796
Military officer; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 3, 1711; was a skilful engineer and artillerist; and chief engineer in the siege of Louisburg, in 1745.
He entered the service, as colonel of infantry, in 1755; was in the expedition to Crown Point, under General Winslow, planned the fortifications at Lake George (Fort George and Fort William Henry); served under Amherst; and was with Wolfe at Quebec.
He retired as a British officer on half-pay for life.
Espousing the cause of the patriots, he was appointed chief engineer of the army that gathered at Cambridge; planned the works on Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights; and was in the battle there, in which he was wounded.
He was active in planning the fortifications around Boston, and in September, 1775, he was commissioned a major-general in the provincial army of Massachusetts.
He was commander of the Continental artillery until superseded by Knox.
He died in Stoughton, Mass., June 20, 1796.