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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Benton , Thomas Hart , -1858 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boggs , Charles Stewart , 1811 -1888 (search)
Boggs, Charles Stewart, 1811-1888
Naval officer; born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 28, 1811; entered the navy in 1826; served on stations in the Mediterranean, West Indies, the coast of Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean.
He was made lieutenant in 1837; promoted to commander in 1855; and in 1858 was appointed
Captain Charles Stewart Boggs. light-house inspector on the Pacific coast.
Placed in command of the gunboat Varuna, when the Civil War broke cut, he was with Admiral Farragut in the desperate fight on the Mississippi, near Forts Jackson and St. Philip.
In that contest his conduct was admirable for bravery and fortitude.
He was subsequently in command of various vessels on American and European stations, and was promoted to rear-admiral in July, 1870.
He died in New Brunswick, April 22, 1888.
Caroline Islands
A group in the South Pacific, said to have been discovered by the Portuguese 1525; also by the Spaniard Lopez de Villalobos, 1545; and named after Charles II.
of Spain, 1686.
These islands were virtually given up to Spain in 1876.
The Germans occupying some of the islands, Spain protested in August, 1885.
Spanish vessels arrived at the island of Yop, Aug. 21; the Germans landed and set up their flag, Aug. 24; dispute referred to the Pope; the sovereignty awarded to Spain, with commercial concessions to Germany and Great Britain; agreement signed, Nov. 25; confirmed at Rome, Dec. 17, 1885; natives subdued, Spaniards in full possession, 1891.
During the American-Spanish War there were frequent rumors that the United States was about to seize the islands; but the group was sold by Spain to Germany in 1899.
The chief American interest in the Caroline Islands lies in the facts that American missionaries began work on the island of Ponape in 1852, the pioneer
Central America,
A large expanse of territory connecting North and South America, and comprising in 1901 the republics of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
The region was discovered by Columbus, in his fourth voyage, in 1502.
He found the bay of Honduras, where he landed; then proceeded along the main shore to Cape Gracias a Dios; and thence to the Isthmus of Darien, hoping, but in vain, to obtain a passage to the Pacific Ocean.
At the isthmus he found a harbor, and, on account of its beauty and security, he called it Porto Bello.
At another place in that country, on the Dureka River, he began a settlement with sixty-eight men; but they were driven off by a warlike tribe of Indians—the first repulse the Spaniards had ever met with.
But for this occurrence, caused by the rapacity and cruelty of the Spaniards, Columbus might have had the honor of planting the first European colony on the continent of America.
In 1509 Alonzo de Ojeda, with 300 soldier
Chatham Island,
One of the Galapagos Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles west of Ecuador, to which it belongs.
It is of volcanic origin, the fifth in size of the Galapagos, and abounds in turtles and a small species of cat. Chatham Island has been the subject of negotiation between the United States and Ecuador, the former desiring it as a coaling station.
It would possess strategic importance in the event of the opening of an isthmian canal.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese -American reciprocity. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corwin , Thomas 1794 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Soto , Fernando , 1496 - (search)
De Soto, Fernando, 1496-
Discoverer; born in Xeres, Estremadura, Spain, about 1496,( of a noble but impoverished family.
Davila, governor of Darien, was his kin patron, through whose generosity he received a good education, and who too him to Central America, where he engaged in exploring the coast of the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles in search of supposed strait connecting the two ocean When Pizarro went to Peru, De Soto a companied him, and was his chief lieutenant in achieving the conquest of that country.
Brave and judicious, De Sot was the chief hero in the battle that resuited in the capture of Cuzco, the capital
Fernando De Soto. of the Incas, and the destruction of their empire.
Soon after that event he returned to Spain with large wealth, and was received by King Charles V. with great consideration.
He married Isabella Bobadilla, a scion of one of the most renowned of the Castilian families, and his influence at Court was thereby strengthened.
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