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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
eace with the Choctaw Indians......1715 Governor Cadillac, in search of silver, goes to the Illinois country and incurs the enmity of the Natchez Indians......1715 Bienville ascends the Mississippi to subject the Natchez, and establishes Fort Rosalie in their country......April, 1716 M. de l'epinay arrives as governor from France......March 9, 1717 Crozat surrenders his trading privilege to the King......Aug. 23, 1717 Company of the West chartered to foster and preserve the coloany, each provided with a small casket of wearing apparel......1728 [Known as Filles à la Cassette, or casket girls.] Chevalier Loubois, with allied French and Choctaws, advances against Natchez Indians, who had massacred the garrison of Fort Rosalie and occupied it; the Indians desert the fort and 200 prisoners in it......January, 1730 M. Perier makes another expedition against the Natchez and secures their chief, Great Sun, and others......Jan. 24, 1731 [Great Sun died a prisoner,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
ississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and coed from Biloxi to New Orleans......1723 Chopart, commander of Fort Rosalie, demands that Great Sun, head of the Natchez tribe of Indians, slity of the colonies at Natchez, Bayou Pierre, etc.......1778 Fort Panmure, formerly the French fort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infantry under Capt. Michael Jackson, by order of the governor of west Florida......1778 Gen. don Bernardo de Galvez, proposing to expel the who surrenders all west Florida upon the Mississippi, including Fort Panmure and the district of Natchez, to the Spanish......Sept. 21, 1779 Fort Panmure surrendered by the Spaniards to insurgents, under the British flag, after a siege of a week......April 30, 1781 Don Carlos that on March 23 Fort Nogales on Walnut Hill was evacuated, and Fort Panmure about midnight......March 29-30, 1798 Act of Congress approve
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Robert James 1801-1869 (search)
Walker, Robert James 1801-1869 Financier; born in Northumberland, Pa., July 23, 1801; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819. In 1826 he settled in Natchez, Miss.; was United States Senator from 1837 to 1845, being a Democratic leader in that body, warmly supported the financial measures of President Van Buren; and had great influence over President Tyler, counselling the vigorous steps which led to the annexation of Texas. During the administration of President Polk he was Secretary of the Treasury, and in 1857-58 was governor of Kansas Territory. He resigned, being unwilling, he said, to aid in forcing slavery on that Territory by fraud and forgery. In 1863-64 he was financial agent of the United States in Europe, effecting the sale of $250,000,000 of fivetwenty bonds, and defeating the second authorized Confederate loan of $175,000,000. He was an efficient advocate of the Pacific Railroad and of free-trade. His celebrated report in favor of free-trade was rep
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ware, Nathaniel A. -1854 (search)
Ware, Nathaniel A. -1854 author; born near Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 16, 1780; taught school; studied law and practised; removed to Natchez, Miss., where he became major of militia and secretary of the territorial government. He removed to Philadelphia, and later to Cincinnati; travelled extensively, making a study of botany, geography, and natural science; and wrote Views of the federal Constitution; Notes on political Economy, as applicable to the United States, etc. He died in Galveston, Tex., in 1854.
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