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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Genest, or Genet, Edmond Charles 1765-1834 (search)
he celebrated Madame Campan, and was brought up in the French Court; yet he was a republican. Attached to the embassies of Berlin, Vienna, London, and St. Petersburg, he maintained his republican bias, and on his return from the Russian Court (1792) was appointed minister to the United States. He had already been made adjutant-general of the armies of France and minister to Holland by the revolutionists, and employed in revolutionizing Geneva and annexing it to France. He arrived at Charleston, S. C., April 9, 1793. He was received with open arms by the Republican, or Democratic, party. He was disposed to treat the United States government with contempt, believing the people would not sustain it in its coldness towards the French revolutionists. He came with blank commissions for naval and military service, and before he proceeded to the seat of government to present his credentials he fitted out two privateers at Charleston to prey on British commerce, and gave authority to e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
his door, and all intercourse between Wright and friends of the crown was forbidden. One stormy night (Feb. 11, 1776), Governor Wright escaped from a back window of his house, with an attendant, fled to a boat at the river-side, and went down the Savannah 5 miles to Bonaventure, the residence of his companion; thence he was conveyed before daylight to the British armed ship Scarborough, in Tybee Sound. So ended the rule of the last royal governor in Georgia. Sir James was a native of Charleston, S. C.; the son of a chief-justice (Robert Wright) of that province; agent of the province in Great Britain; and attorneygeneral; and in 1760 was appointed chiefjustice and lieutenant-governor. In 1772 he was created a baronet. After his escape from Savannah he retired to England, losing all his large estate in Georgia by confiscation. He died in 1786. Late in 1771 Noble Wimberley Jones was chosen speaker of the Georgia Assembly. He was a man of exemplary life, but the royal governor,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibbes, Robert Wilson 1809-1866 (search)
Gibbes, Robert Wilson 1809-1866 Historian; born in Charleston, S. C., July 8, 1809; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1827; was the editor of the Weekly banner and the Daily South-Carolinian, and was also twice elected mayor of Columbia. During the Civil War he was surgeon-general of South Carolina. Among his writings are A documentary history of the American Revolution, consisting of letters and papers relating to the contest for liberty, chiefly in South Carolina. He died in Columbia, S. C., Oct. 15, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibbes, William Hasell 1754-1831 (search)
Gibbes, William Hasell 1754-1831 Lawyer; born in Charleston, S. C., March 16, 1754; studied law in London, and was one of the thirty Americans living there who signed a petition to the King against the Parliamentary enactments which resulted in the Revolutionary War. He entered the Continental army as captain-lieutenant of artillery. In 1783-1825 he was master in chancery of South Carolina. He died in 1831.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gillon, Alexander 1741-1794 (search)
Gillon, Alexander 1741-1794 Naval officer; born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1741; came to America and settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1766. He captured three British cruisers in May, 1777; was promoted commodore in 1778; and captured the Bahama islands in May, 1782, while commander of a large fleet. He died at Gillon's Retreat, on the Congaree River, S. C., Oct. 6, 1794.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gist, Mordecai 1743-1792 (search)
Gist, Mordecai 1743-1792 Military officer; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1743; was captain of the first troops raised in Maryland at the breaking out of the Revolution; was made major of Smallwood's regiment in 1776; and commanded it at the battle of Long Island. Promoted to colonel in 1777, and brigadier-general early in 1779, he did good service throughout the war, saving the remnant of the army after Gates's defeat, and being present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He died in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 2, 1792.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gray, Robert 1755-1806 (search)
Gray, Robert 1755-1806 Explorer; born in Tiverton, R. I., in 1755; was captain of the Washington, which was sent in 1787 to the northwest coast to trade with the Indians by a number of Boston merchants. In 1790 he returned by way of the Pacific Ocean on board the Columbia, which vessel had accompanied the Washington, and was thus the first to sail around the world under the American flag. Later he made a second trip to the Northwest, and on May 11, 1791, discovered the mouth of the great river, which he named Columbia. He died in Charleston, S. C., in 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greek fire, (search)
Greek fire, A combustible composition (unknown, thought to have been principally naphtha) invented by Callinicus, an engineer of Heliopolis, in Syria, in the seventh century, and used by the Greek emperors. A so-called Greek fire, probably a solution of phosphorus in bisulphide of carbon, was employed at the siege of Charleston, S. C., in 1863. The use of all such substances in war is now prohibited, under a decision of the International Peace Conference at The Hague in 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gwinnett, Button 1732- (search)
Gwinnett, Button 1732- A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in England about 1732; was a merchant at Bristol, and emigrated to Charleston, S. C., in 1770. He settled on St. Catharine's Island, off the coast of Georgia, in 1772. Cautious and doubtful, he took no part in political affairs until after the Revolutionary War was begun, when he became active in the patriot cause. He was chosen a Representative in Congress in 1776, where he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1777 he was president of the provincial council of Georgia, and by hostility to General McIntosh excited the resentment of the latter, who challenged Gwinnett to fight a duel. He accepted the challenge, and on May 15, 1777, was mortally wounded, dying on the 27th.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape 1738-1838 (search)
Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape 1738-1838 Naval officer; born in Blackheath, England, Dec. 17, 1738; joined the British navy in 1753. When the Revolutionary War broke out he came to America with Howe, and served on the Roebuck, which was present at the capture of New York, and which later destroyed the frigate Delaware and other ships in the Delaware River. In November, 1777, Hammond participated in the successful assault on Mud Island; was acting captain of the squadron which reduced Charleston, S. C., in 1780. He returned to England in 1783, and in December of that year was created a baron. He died in Norfolk, England, Oct. 12, 1838.