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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , George Augustus , Viscount 1724 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , mark Antony de Wolfe 1864 - (search)
Howe, mark Antony de Wolfe 1864-
Editor; born in Bristol, R. I., Aug. 28, 1864; graduated at Lehigh University in 1886, and at Harvard University in 1887.
He is author of The memory of Lincoln; and Phillips Brooks (in the Beacon biographies series).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , Richard , Earl 1725 -1799 (search)
Howe, William 1729-
Military officer; born in England, Aug. 10, 1729; was, by illegitimate descent, uncle of George III.
He entered the army as cornet of drago lfe at Quebec.
Made colonel of infantry in 1764, he rose to the rank of
Sir William Howe. majorgeneral in 1772.
In May, 1775, he arrived at Boston with reinforcem hief of the British army in America.
After Gage's recall, it was offered to General Howe, and accepted.
He was in chief command in the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hi on Manhattan Island, and in July, 1777, sailed in the fleet of his brother, Admiral Howe, for Chesapeake Bay.
Marching for Philadelphia, he defeated Washington in b ttle on Brandywine Creek, Sept. 11, 1777, and entered Philadelphia on Sept. 26.
Howe repulsed an attack made by Washington, Oct. 4, at Germantown, and spent the ensu ck, and on the death of his brother, in 1799, succeeded to his Irish viscounty.
Howe was governor of Plymouth and a privy-councillor at the time of his death, July 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leslie , Alexander 1740 -1794 (search)
Leslie, Alexander 1740-1794
Military officer; born in England about 1740; came to Boston with General Howe in 1775; was made a major in June, 1759; a lieutenantcolonel in 1762; and was a brigadiergeneral when he came to America.
In the battle of Long Island, in 1776, he commanded the light infantry, and was in the battle of Harlem Plains in September, and of White Plains in October following.
General Leslie accompanied Sir Henry Clinton against Charleston in April and May, 1780.
In October he took possession of Portsmouth, Va., with 3,000 troops, but soon hastened to join Cornwallis in the Carolinas, which he did in December.
In the battle of Guilford, he commanded the right wing. General Leslie was in command at Charleston at the close of hostilities.
He died in England, Dec. 27, 1794.
Mercer, Fort
A strong work on the New Jersey shore of the Delaware, not far below Philadelphia, which in 1777 had a garrison under the command of Col. Christopher Greene, of Rhode Island.
After Howe had taken possession of Philadelphia, in September of that year, he felt the necessity of strengthening his position; so, in the middle of October, he ordered Gen. Sir Henry Clinton to abandon the forts he had captured in the Hudson Highlands, and send 6,000 troops to Philadelphia.
He had just issued this order, when news of the surrender of Burgoyne and his army reached him. He then perceived that he must speedily open the way for his brother's fleet to ascend the Delaware to Philadelphia or all would be lost.
He ordered Count Donop to take 1,200 picked Hessian soldiers, cross the Delaware at Philadelphia, march down the New Jersey shore, and take Fort Mercer by storm.
He obeyed, and at the same time the British vessels of war in the river opened a furious cannonade on Fort Miff
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mischianza, the (search)
Mischianza, the
Before Sir William Howe's departure from Philadelphia, May 24, 1778, he and his brother, the admiral, were honored by a grand complimentary entertainment, the most splendid, the accomplished Major Andre wrote, ever
Mischianza ticket. given by an army to their commander.
It was given at the Wharton Mansion and lawns on the present Fifth Street. Andre was the chief inventor of the pageant, which was called, in the Italian tongue, mischianza, a medley, and the ticket of admission was designed by him. It began with a grand regatta on the Delaware, in the presence of thousands of spectators, and accompanied by martial music and the flutter of banners.
This over, the scene changed to a tournament on Wharton's lawn, in which young ladies of Tory families in Philadelphia joined in a spectacle imitating the noted military pastimes of the Middle Ages.
There were knights and ladies, a queen of beauty, and all the paraphernalia of a scene of ancient chivalry.
Then ther
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Musgrave , Sir Thomas 1738 - (search)
Musgrave, Sir Thomas 1738-
Military officer; born in 1738; was captain in the British army in 1759; came to America with General Howe in 1776; and in the battle of Germantown (q. v.) saved the day for his King by throwing himself, with five companies, into Chew's strong stone house, and holding the American forces at bay until the repulsed British columns could rally.
He became majorgeneral in 1790, and general in 1802.
He died Dec. 31, 1812.