hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) 32 0 Browse Search
Dumfries, Va. (Virginia, United States) 20 0 Browse Search
Georgia (Georgia, United States) 20 0 Browse Search
United States (United States) 18 0 Browse Search
Baker P. Lee 17 1 Browse Search
Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) 14 0 Browse Search
Virginia (Virginia, United States) 12 0 Browse Search
Henry Laurens 10 0 Browse Search
H. H. Cocke 10 0 Browse Search
France (France) 10 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource].

Found 1,157 total hits in 553 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
1779 AD (search for this): article 1
A case (not) parallel. --Ion, the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, brings up the case of Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, who was captured in 1779 by a British frigate, while proceeding to Holland on a mission from the Congress. The cases are not parallel. Laurens was captured in an American ship, the ship itself being therefore an enemy's ship, and persons on board of it standing in exactly the same relation to the Government of the captors, that they would have stood had they been taken on land in an enemy's country. Nobody denies that Wilke would have been justifiable in taking Messrs Mason and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately the
Graves (search for this): article 1
he French, and the absence of so large a portion of his fleet rendered it necessary for him to abandon the West India waters to the French Admiral Count de Grasse.--That officer, without being followed, was enabled to carry his fleet into the Chesapeake and render the capture of Cornwallis and the independence of the Colonies a certainty. Had not Rodney been without so large a portion of his fleet, he would either not have permitted him to go, or he would have followed him and, uniting with Graves, in all probability have defeated him in our waters. Cornwallis would have escaped, and the independence of America would have been postponed for many years. So St. Eustatia saved the American cause, and there would have been no plunder of St. Eustatia if there had not been war with the Dutch, and there would have been no war with the Dutch if Mr. Laurens had succeeded in sinking his dispatches. Mr. Laurens was sent to the Tower and confined, at first, with great rigor. After a while
Vaughan (search for this): article 1
inate, but indecisive sea-fight off the Dogger Bank, between Admiral Hyde Parker and the Dutch fleet, and the capture and plunder of the Dutch Island of St. Eustatia, by the British West India fleet under Admiral Rodney, and a land force under Gen. Vaughan. This latter enterprise had a most important bearing upon the issue of the war in America, and is one of many proofs afforded by history, that the greatest events are frequently dependent upon causes the most trivial. Rodney was a great gambto understand each other, without explanation, by a sort of freemasonry which more vulgar spirits cannot comprehend. We had nearly forgotten our narrative.--Rodney, after relieving Gibraltar, went to the West Indies, where in company with Gen. Vaughan, he captured and pillaged St. Eustatia. The wealth on this island puts one in mind of the enchanted castles and grottos filled with bags of gold, of which the "Arabian Nights" are so full. Rodney had an ample opportunity to recruit his broke
Bayard (search for this): article 1
crew on board, when the Spanish Captain informed him that half his crew were dying of a malignant small-pox Macbride was in a dilemma, but was relieved by the Spaniard, who told him that if he would trust to his honor, be would take the prize into Gibraltar and deliver it to the proper authorities. He took him at his word and the Spaniard was true to the very letter. This was genuine chivalry, worthy of Castile in her best days, and the feeling which prompted it reminds us of the Cid or of Bayard, rather than of modern commanders. It was scarcely less creditable to Macbride than to the Spanish Captain. So apt. are generous natures to understand each other, without explanation, by a sort of freemasonry which more vulgar spirits cannot comprehend. We had nearly forgotten our narrative.--Rodney, after relieving Gibraltar, went to the West Indies, where in company with Gen. Vaughan, he captured and pillaged St. Eustatia. The wealth on this island puts one in mind of the enchanted
Mason (search for this): article 1
rens, of South Carolina, who was captured in 1779 by a British frigate, while proceeding to Holland on a mission from the Congress. The cases are not parallel. Laurens was captured in an American ship, the ship itself being therefore an enemy's ship, and persons on board of it standing in exactly the same relation to the Government of the captors, that they would have stood had they been taken on land in an enemy's country. Nobody denies that Wilke would have been justifiable in taking Messrs Mason and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately they floated, and were picked up by the British. The discovery, through them, of a good understanding between
Slidell (search for this): article 1
Carolina, who was captured in 1779 by a British frigate, while proceeding to Holland on a mission from the Congress. The cases are not parallel. Laurens was captured in an American ship, the ship itself being therefore an enemy's ship, and persons on board of it standing in exactly the same relation to the Government of the captors, that they would have stood had they been taken on land in an enemy's country. Nobody denies that Wilke would have been justifiable in taking Messrs Mason and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately they floated, and were picked up by the British. The discovery, through them, of a good understanding between Holland and t
Rodney (search for this): article 1
pture and plunder of the Dutch Island of St. Eustatia, by the British West India fleet under Admiral Rodney, and a land force under Gen. Vaughan. This latter enterprise had a most important bearing uded by history, that the greatest events are frequently dependent upon causes the most trivial. Rodney was a great gambler, and had retired to France to avoid his creditors previously to the breakingasonry which more vulgar spirits cannot comprehend. We had nearly forgotten our narrative.--Rodney, after relieving Gibraltar, went to the West Indies, where in company with Gen. Vaughan, he capthanted castles and grottos filled with bags of gold, of which the "Arabian Nights" are so full. Rodney had an ample opportunity to recruit his broken fortunes, and he availed himself of it to the utt and render the capture of Cornwallis and the independence of the Colonies a certainty. Had not Rodney been without so large a portion of his fleet, he would either not have permitted him to go, or h
George Gordon (search for this): article 1
ld have been postponed for many years. So St. Eustatia saved the American cause, and there would have been no plunder of St. Eustatia if there had not been war with the Dutch, and there would have been no war with the Dutch if Mr. Laurens had succeeded in sinking his dispatches. Mr. Laurens was sent to the Tower and confined, at first, with great rigor. After a while, however, his health having given way under the confinement, he was allowed to take the air, at certain stated hours, in the court-yard of his prison. On one occasion, having met and conversed with Lord George Gordon, who was under trial for the riots he had gotten up in London on the Catholic question, he was instantly remanded to his dungeon, and during the remainder of his captivity rigidly confined He was exchanged, we believe, for Cornwallis. It was a remarkable coincidence that Cornwallis held at the time the office of keeper of the Tower of London, and was thus exchanged for a man who was his own captive.
Ion (search for this): article 1
A case (not) parallel. --Ion, the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, brings up the case of Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, who was captured in 1779 by a British frigate, while proceeding to Holland on a mission from the Congress. The cases are not parallel. Laurens was captured in an American ship, the ship itself being therefore an enemy's ship, and persons on board of it standing in exactly the same relation to the Government of the captors, that they would have stood had they been taken on land in an enemy's country. Nobody denies that Wilke would have been justifiable in taking Messrs Mason and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately th
Holland (search for this): article 1
n and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel. It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately they floated, and were picked up by the British. The discovery, through them, of a good understanding between Holland and the Colonies, led to a short war between Great Britain and the former power, the only incidents of any account in which were the obstinate, but indecisive sea-fight off the Dogger Bank, between Admiral Hyde Parker and the Dutch fleet, and the capture and plunder of the Dutch Island of St. Eustatia, by the British West India fleet under Admiral Rodney, and a land force under Gen. Vaughan. This latter enterprise had a most important bearing upon the issue of the war in America, and is on
1 2 3 4 5 6 ...