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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grasse-Tilly, Francois Joseph Paul, Count de 1723-1788 (search)
s to the action. ships-of-the-line, followed by an immense convoy of about 250 merchantmen. That convoy he put safely into the harbor of Port Royal, having carefully avoided a close engagement with a part of Rodney's fleet, under Admiral Hood. He engaged with British vessels at long range (April 29), and so injured them that they were obliged to go to Antigua for repairs, and, meanwhile, he accomplished the conquest of Tobago in June. He then proceeded with the fleet of merchantmen to Santo Domingo, and soon afterwards sailed with an immense return convoy, bound for France. After seeing it well on its way, he steered for Chesapeake, and, despite the activity of British fleets watching for him, he was safe within the capes of Virginia, and at anchor, with twenty-four ships-of-the-line, at the beginning of September. He found an officer of Lafayette's staff at Cape Henry, sent to request him to blockade the York and James rivers, so as to cut off Cornwallis's retreat. This was don
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hilliard d'auberteuil, Michel Rene 1751-1785 (search)
Hilliard d'auberteuil, Michel Rene 1751-1785 Author; born in Rennes, France, Jan. 31, 1751; was a lawyer in Santo Domingo, and during the Revolutionary War visited the United States. He was the author of Historical and political essays on the Anglo-Americans; History of the administration of Lord North, from 1770 until 1782, in the War of North America, etc. He died in Santo Domingo, W. I., in 1785. Hilliard d'auberteuil, Michel Rene 1751-1785 Author; born in Rennes, France, Jan. 31, 1751; was a lawyer in Santo Domingo, and during the Revolutionary War visited the United States. He was the author of Historical and political essays on the Anglo-Americans; History of the administration of Lord North, from 1770 until 1782, in the War of North America, etc. He died in Santo Domingo, W. I., in 1785.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe, Samuel Gridley 1801-1876 (search)
21; became a physician; and sympathizing with the Greeks in their struggle for independence, went there in 1824, and served as a surgeon in the army and in other capacities until 1830. In 1831 he became interested in the establishment of an institution for the blind in Boston. The Pekin Institute was the result. It was put in operation in 1832, with Dr. Howe at its head. In that institution, through the unwearied efforts of Dr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, a deaf, dumb, and blind girl, became educated. Dr. Howe, while in Europe, preparatory to opening the institution, engaged a little in politics, and was in a Prussian prison about six weeks. He was ever active in every good work. He went to Greece again in 1867, as bearer of supplies to the Cretans in their struggle with the Turks. In 1871 he was one of the commissioners sent by the government of the United States to Santo Domingo to report upon the annexation of that island to the American Republic. He died in Boston, June 6, 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jamaica, conquest of (search)
Venables to attack the Spanish West Indies. Edward Winslow went with the fleet as one of Cromwell's commissioners to superintend the conquered countries. By volunteers from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands the army was increased to 10,000. Santo Domingo was first attacked. The English were repulsed, and then proceeded to Jamaica, which they easily took possession of, for it was inhabited by only a few of the enervated descendants of old Spanish colonists and some negro slaves. Winslow died at sea soon after the repulse at Santo Domingo, and Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, was put in his place. He framed an instrument of government for Jamaica, having a supreme executive council, of which he was the head. Cromwell, anxious to retain and people the island with subjects of Great Britain, ordered the enlistment in Ireland of 1,000 girls and young men, and sent them over. Idle, masterless robbers and vagabonds, male and female, were arrested and sent to Jamaica; and to have a due adm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), La Salle, Robert Cavelter, Sieur de 1643- (search)
eded to France and proposed to the government a settlement in Louisiana and the conquest of the rich mining country in northern Mexico. A patent was granted him, and he was made commandant of the vast territory from the present State of Illinois to Mexico, and westward indefinitely. With 280 indifferent persons he sailed from France Aug. 1, 1684, with four ships; but disputes between Beaujeu, the navigator of the squadron, and La Salle proved disastrous to the expedition. Touching at Santo Domingo, they entered the Gulf of Mexico, and, by miscalculations, passed the mouth of the Mississippi without knowing it. La Salle became satisfied of this fact, but Beaujeu sailed obstinately on, and finally anchored off the entrance to Matagorda Bay. The colonists debarked, but the store-ship containing most of the supplies, was wrecked. Beaujeu, pleading a lack of provisions, deserted La Salle, leaving him only a small vessel. He cast up a fort, which he called St. Louis, and attempted to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Las Casas, Bartolome de 1474-1566 (search)
alamanca, with him. Bartolome accompanied Columbus on his third and fourth voyages, and, on his return, entered the order of the Dominicans, that he might become a missionary among the natives of the new-found islands of the West. He went to Santo Domingo, and was there ordained a priest, in 1510, and gave the name to the island in compliment to his order. Las Casas was chaplain to Velasquez when the latter conquered Cuba, and did much to alleviate the sufferings of the conquered natives. Iname regent of Spain the following year, and sent out three monks to correct abuses. Their services were not satisfactory, and, returning to Spain, Las Casas was appointed Universal Protector of the Indies. Seeing the few negroes who were in Santo Domingo and Cuba growing robust while laboring under the hot sun, he proposed the introduction of negro slaves to relieve the more effeminate natives. This benevolent proposition gave rise to a lucrative traffic, and a perversion of the purpose of L
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laughlin, James Laurence 1850- (search)
Laughlin, James Laurence 1850- Political economist; born in Deerfield, O., April 2, 1850; graduated at Harvard University in 1873; was an instructor in Hopkinson's Classical School, Boston, in 1873-78; instructor of political economy in Harvard in 1878-83; then assistant professor of that study there; professor of the same in Cornell University in 1890-92; in the latter year became head Professor of Political Economy in the University of Chicago. In 1894-95 he prepared a scheme of monetary reform for the government of San Domingo, which later adopted it. He was a member of the monetary commission appointed in 1897 by the Indianapolis Monetary Conference. He is the author of Mill's political Economy abridged and added to; Study of political Economy; History of bimetallism in the United States; Facts about money; and Elements of political Economy. He is the editor of the Journal of political Economy.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lear, Tobias 1762- (search)
Lear, Tobias 1762- Diplomatist; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 19, 1762; graduated at Harvard in 1783, and became private secretary to Washington in 1785. The latter remembered Mr. Lear liberally in his will. In 1801 he was American consul-general in Santo Domingo, and from 1804 to 1812 held the same office at Algiers. Mr. Lear was an accountant in the War Department at the time of his death, in Washington, D. C., Oct. 10, 1816.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McClellan, George Brinton 1826-1885 (search)
co. After the war he was instructor of bayonet exercise at West Point, and his Manual, translated from the French, became the text-book of the service. In 1852 he was engaged with Capt. Randolph B. Marcy (afterwards his father-in-law) and Gen. C. F. Smith in explorations and surveys of Red River, the harbors of Texas, and the western part of a proposed route for a Pacific railway; also mountain ranges and the most direct route to Puget's Sound. He was next sent on a secret mission to Santo Domingo; and in 1855 he was sent with Majors Delafield and Mordecai to Europe to study the organization of European armies and observe the war in the Crimea. Captain McClellan left the army in 1857 and engaged in civil engineering and as superintendent of railroads. He was residing in Ohio when the Civil War broke out, and was commissioned major-general of Ohio volunteers by the governor. He took command of all the troops in the Department of the Ohio; and after a brief and successful campaig
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marbois, Francois de Barbe, Marquis de 1745-1837 (search)
, the French minister of marine, through whose influence he obtained (1779) the appointment to the post of secretary of legation to the United States during the Revolution. By his learning and talents he became the principal agent in the most important operations of the embassy while Luzerne was minister. After the return of the latter Marbois remained as charge d'affaires, and resided in America until 1785, arranging all the French consulates. He was afterwards appointed Intendant of Santo Domingo, and returned to France in 1790, when he was sent as ambassador to the German Diet. Having offended the ruling party in the course of the fierce French Revolution, he was condemned to exile at Cayenne. On his return, Bonaparte, then First Consul, nominated him as the first councillor of state, and in 1801 he was made secretary of the treasury. He successfully negotiated the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. He served in conspicuous posts in civil life, and was among the
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