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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain. (search)
The fleet conveyed an army of 12,000 men, led by General Cathcart, and the number of seamen amounted to 15,000. The army was composed of British regulars, battalions from the American colonies, and negroes from Jamaica—the greatest armament ever seen in the West Indies. The second in command of the troops was Sir Alexander Spottswood (q. v.), formerly governor of Virginia. The expedition met with disaster. While the fleet, with the soldiers yet on hoard the transports, was blockading Carthagena, the yellow fever broke out among them with great fury. Cathcart and Spottswood perished by the disease, and the command devolved on General Wentworth, who could not agree with Vernon. After several unsuccessful attacks upon the city, the enterprise was abandoned, with immense loss, chiefly through sickness. Additional troops were sent from Massachusetts, and, with them, Vernon sailed for Cuba, but was unsuccessful. A fleet under Anson, which had been sent to the Pacific to repeat th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
rcourse act......April 19, 1809 Eleventh Congress, first session (extra), convenes......May 22, 1809 Francisco Miranda, a native of South America, aiming to overthrow the Spanish power in Caracas, South America, engages a vessel, the Leander, and with about 250 men sails from New York, February, 1806. Although reinforced by some other vessels, and gaining some advantages, the expedition results in failure. The Americans of the expedition captured by the Spaniards, while confined at Carthagena, petition their government for relief, June 9. A resolution requesting the President to take measures for their liberation, if satisfied that they are entitled to it, is offered in the House; it is lost (61 to 61) by the speaker's casting vote......June 14, 1809 First session (extra) adjourns......June 28, 1809 Great Britain not revoking her Orders in council of 1807, the President proclaims the Non-intercourse act still in force towards that country......Aug. 9, 1809 David M. E
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
..May 29, 1736 First newspaper in Virginia, the Virginia Gazette, published by William Parks, appears at Williamsburg......August, 1736 Richmond settled by William Byrd......1739 Virginia raises a regiment to assist in the reduction of Carthagena, West Indies. Lawrence Washington, half-brother of George Washington, is a captain in it, embarking......1740 Mount Vernon, named by Lawrence Washington after Admiral Vernon, who commanded the fleet against Carthagena......1740 George WhCarthagena......1740 George Whitefield comes to Virginia......1740 Richmond incorporated......1742 Augustine Washington, father of George Washington, dies......April, 1743 Thomas Jefferson born in Albemarle county......April 2, 1743 Dr. Thomas Walker, of the council of Virginia, crosses and names the Cumberland Mountains......1747 Harper's Ferry, named after Robert Harper, an English millwright, who obtains a grant of it from Lord Fairfax......1748 Thomas Lee, of the council, proposes to form the Ohio Compa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vernon, Edward 1684-1757 (search)
to the West Indies, with the commission of viceadmiral of the blue. With six men-of-war he captured Porto Bello on the day after the attack (Nov. 23, 1739), the English losing only seven men. For this exploit a commemorative medal was struck, bearing an effigy of the admiral on one disk. and a town and six ships on the other. With twenty-nine ships-of-the-line and eighty small vessels, bearing 15,000 sailors and 12,000 land troops, Vernon sailed from Jamaica (January, 1741) to attack Carthagena, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Twenty thousand men perished, chiefly by a malignant fever. The admiral was afterwards in Parliament several years, and during the invasion of the Young Pretender in 1745 he was employed to guard the coasts of Kent and Suffolk; but soon afterwards, on account of a quarrel with the admiralty, his name was struck from the list of admirals. Lawrence Washington, a brother of General Washington, then a spirited young man of twenty-two, bearing a captain's
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, Lawrence 1718- (search)
father of George, was Jane Butler. Lawrence received by his father's will the estate of Hunting Creek, on a bay and stream of that name, not far from Alexandria, and stretching for miles along the Potomac. He inherited the military spirit of his father, and engaged in an expedition against the Spaniards in South America, holding a captain's commission. He embarked for the West Indies in 1741, under General Wentworth. That officer and Admiral Vernon commanded a joint expedition against Carthagena, which resulted in disaster, not less than 20,000 British soldiers and seamen perishing, chiefly from a fatal sickness like yellow fever. It was in the midst of that terrible pestilence that the seeds of a fatal disease were planted in the system of Lawrence Washington, against which he struggled for years. During the campaign he had gained the confidence Lawrence Washington. Martha Washington. of both Wentworth and Vernon. Lawrence intended to go to England and join the regular a
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 54: (search)
us related:— At about half an hour after noon, having got within range, the Grasshopper opened a heavy fire of round and grape upon the brig. A running fight was maintained—about fifteen minutes of its close— until two P. M., when the latter, which was the Spanish brig-of-war San Jose, of ten 24-pounder carronades, and two long sixes, commanded by Lieutenant Don Antonio de Torres, ran on shore under Cape Negrete, and struck her colors. The greater part of her crew, which, upon leaving Carthagena, on the preceding evening, numbered 99 men, then swam on shore, and effected their escape. 4 James, 374. The Var and the belle Poule. In 1809, in the Gulf of Velona, the French ship-of-war Var, struck to the British frigate Belle Poule, but before she could be taken possession of, the officers, and a greater part of the crew escaped. The action is described as follows:— On the 15th, at daybreak, the Var was discovered moored with cables to the fortress of Velona, mounting fourt
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
ary to clean, paint, or repair the bottom of the dock, it is careened by the weight of water in the load chambers of one side, and the middle line is raised about five feet out of the water. The Royal Alfred, bearing the flag of the admiral on the station, and weighing 6,000 tons, was lifted by this dock, her keel resting on a central line of blocks arranged on the floor of the dock, the ship being shored up with timbers all round the top-sides. A similar dock was sent in sections to Carthagena, and lifted several vessels of from 3,800 to 5,600 tons, in one case (the Numancia ) supporting the vessel eighty days. Float′ing-har′bor. A breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. Float′ing-light. 1. A light exhibited at the mast-head of a vessel moored on a spit or shoal where no adequate foundation exists for a permanent structure. The screw-pile, in affording a new means of founding struct<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ginia, who lived at the Temple Farm, near Yorktown, Va. He had been wounded at Blenheim, where he served with Marlborough. He was the first to cross the Blue Ridge and see the Shenandoah Valley. He was appointed commander of the expedition to Carthagena, but died at Annapolis, Md., June, 1740, as the troops were about to embark. He was buried in the mausoleum from which the Temple Farm derived its name. In this expedition the elder brother of George Washington served, and on his return namedhave been largely employed for constructions in the sea, especially for harbor dams, breakwaters, and quay walling. We may cite the moles of Dover and Alderney, in England, of Port Vendre, Cette, La Ciotat, Marseilles, and Cherbourg in France, Carthagena in Spain, Pola in the Adriatic, of Algiers and Port Said in Africa, and Cape Henlopen at the mouth of the Delaware. For the break water at Cherbourg artificial stone blocks of 712 cubic feet each were immersed The fortifications before Cope
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
eer; Peekskill, N. Y. 5 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Carroll, Samuel. Corpl. 26, sin.; barber; Nashville, Tenn. 5 May 63; died 3 Mch 64 Jacksonville, Fla. of disease. $50. Carson, Arthur 25, mar.; laborer; Mercersburg, Pa. 6 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Champion, John Battis. 22, sin.; laborer; Dominique, W. I. 3 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. $325. Champlin, Jason 30, sin.; farmer; Shutesbury. 13 Jly 63; missing 20 Feby 64 Olustee, Fla; supposed killed. —— Churchman, John 19, sin.; laborer; Carthagenia, O. 5 May 63; deserted 8 Mch 65 Savannah, Ga. $50. Cooper, Lloyd. 27, mar.; laborer; Cincinnati, O. 5 May 63; 13 Sep 65 Boston. $50. cotton, Asa. Sergt. 21, sin.; farmer; Xenia, O. 12 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Craig, Henry 47, sin.; boatman; Cincinnati, O. 5 May 63; killed 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Crosier, Silas 18, sin.; farmer; Bristol, Vt. 15 Jly 63; 20 Aug 65. —— Daniel, Pleasant 21, sin.; drayman; Memphis, Tenn. 5 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Darks, Charles H. 18. sin.;
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
mest of walking men, first-lieutenant. Nor shall Labor hold back for the convention. The Screwmen's benevolent association—sturdy workers along the levee, still populous with boats bringing cotton, rice and sugar—enjoys its annual parade. Business and confidence touch elbows. The 8th of January, representing that battle which has so strongly inspired the spirit of the soldier of Louisiana, is to be celebrated with a muster of the city's militia. Every historic city, like Saragossa, Carthagena, Moscow, whose sons have from their native soil beaten back the invader, has a military day—a day wholly and gloriously its own. New Orleans is happy in her day. The world honors it It is hers by a double right: that of the invader's defeat and of her defender's valor. The day and the memories connected with it have given her sons a peculiar quality of courage, combining with the inspiration of their French lineage that courage, steady like Plymouth Rock, of their American ancestors. Tha<
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