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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
Deposit. At Vincennes General Hopkins had assembled about 4,000 mounted Kentucky militia to chastise the Indians on the borders of Illinois. They penetrated the Indian country beyond the Wabash; but, becoming alarmed, returned to Vincennes, and left the honors of the campaign to be gathered by Ninian Edwards, governor of the Territory of Illinois, who had advanced up the Illinois River with about 400 men to co-operate with Hopkins. He succeeded in destroying several Indian villages above Peoria. Harrison, meanwhile, was busily employed in pushing forward provisions to forts towards the lake, whence his troops were to march for concentration at the rapids of the Maumee, where another depot was to be established. It was a miserable country to pass over —swampy, wooded, and made almost impassable by heavy rains. The troops became discontented and mutinous. Orders given to Tupper's division to advance to the Maumee Rapids were not, or could not be, obeyed; it fell back to Urbana.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
gun vesselS.3,795T. S.b3 Petrel892GunboatS.1,095S.c4 Scorpion850Gunboat (converted)S.2,800T. S.b8 Fern840TenderW.300S.b3 Bancroft839GunboatS.1,213T. S.c4 Vixen806Gunboat (converted)S.1,250S.b4 Gloucester786Gunboat (converted)S.2,000S.b10 Michigan685CruiserI.365P.b6 Wasp630Gunboat (converted)S.1,800S.b6 Frolic607Gunboat (converted)S.550S.b4 Dorothea594Gunboat (converted)S.1,558S.b10 El Cano560GunboatS.660T. S... Pinta550GunboatI.310S.b2 Strangera546Gunboat (converted)I......S.b5 Peoria488Gunboat (converted)S......S.b7 Hist472Gunboat (converted)S.500S.b6 Eagle434Gunboat (converted)S.850S.b6 Hornet425Gunboat (converted)S.800S.b9 Quiros400GunboatComp.208S.b2 Villaobos400GunboatComp.208S.b2 Ships of the Navy in 1901.—Continued. Fourth rate Name.Displacement (Tons).Type.Hull.Indicated Horse-Power.Propulsion.Guns (Main Battery） Hawk375Gunboat (converted)S.1,000S.b4 Sirena315Gunboat (converted)S......S.b4 Sylviaa302Gunboat (converted)I......S.b6 Callao200GunboatS
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tonti, Henri, Chevalier de 1650- (search)
Tonti, Henri, Chevalier de 1650- Explorer; born in Gaeta, Italy, about 1650; son of Lorenzo Tonti; inventor of the Tontine system of association; entered the French army in his youth, and in the French naval service he lost a hand. In 1678 he accompanied La Salle to Canada, and assisted him in his Western explorations, building a fort on the site of Peoria, Ill., in 1680. He descended the Mississippi to its mouth with La Salle in 1682. In 1684 he went to the mouth of the Mississippi to meet La Salle, and attempted a settlement of Europeans in Arkansas. In 1685 he incited a force of Western Indians to attack the Senecas. Again he went down to the Gulf to meet La Salle, and was again disappointed; and in 1699 he went down to meet Iberville, and remained in the Gulf region, dying in Fort St. Louis, Mobile, in September, 1704.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
one at the mouth of the Chicago River, where a fort formerly stood ......Aug. 3, 1795 Site of Peoria fixed by the abandonment of a settlement called La Ville de Maillet, located farther up the lake who settled at Chicago about 1779, sells his cabin to a French trader named Le Mai and moves to Peoria......1796 Illinois part of Indian Territory, created by act......May 7, 1800 Memorial to C15-16, 1812 Captain Craig, of Shawneetown, under instructions from Gen. Samuel Hopkins, burns Peoria and removes the captured French inhabitants suspected of complicity with the Indians to Alton...egates for William McKinley for President......April 29-30, 1896 Illinois State Convention at Peoria renominates John P. Altgeld for governor, and declares for free silver at 16 to 1......June 23, icago......May 2, 1900 Richard Yates nominated for governor by Republican State convention at Peoria, on fortieth anniversary of nomination of his father, Richard Yates, Sr., for same office......M
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iowa, (search)
Independent with fifty votes; no organization until Jan. 27; by compromise, a Democratic temporary speaker and a Republican clerk are elected; permanent organization with a Democratic speaker and Republican clerk, minor offices divided......Feb. 19, 1890 Horace Boies, Democrat, inaugurated as governor......Feb. 27, 1890 Legal rate of interest reduced from 10 to 8 per cent., and the first Monday in September (Labor Day) made a public holiday......1890 Beer sent in sealed kegs from Peoria, Ill., to Keokuk, Ia., and there sold in original packages by agents, being seized under the prohibitory laws of the State, the Supreme Court decides such seizure was in violation of the clause of the Constitution giving to the United States the exclusive right to regulate inter-State commerce......April 28, .1890 Wilson original package bill, as amended, making all intoxicating liquors imported into a State subject to its laws, passes Congress and is approved......Aug. 8, 1890 Legislatur
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), University and College education in the United States, the trend of (search)
ich thus present themselves are many, and among them not the least is the greatly increased cost of maintenance. The number of denominational colleges with an endowment of less than $100,000 is very large. These, for the most part. have less than 100 to 150 college students. The total income from all sources of more than one-third of all the colleges and universities in the United States is in each case less than $10,000. The cost per capita for high-school instruction in a city like Peoria, Ill., is larger than the cost per capita of instruction furnished in many of the colleges. The demands of modern methods have multiplied the cost of education many times, and at the same time the income on investments is steadily decreasing. The denominations recognize the fact that, as such, they lack the means necessary to make provision for the work of higher education in the largest sense. No denomination, as such, has yet established and endowed an institution which has the rank of u
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