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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coudert , Frederic Rene 1832 - (search)
Coudert, Frederic Rene 1832-
Lawyer; born in New York City, of French parentage, in 1832; graduated at Columbia College in 1850; and admitted to the bar in 1853.
For many years he has represented France in its legal interests in the United States, and has become widely known as an expert in international law. He was a delegate to the International Congress in Antwerp; member of the Venezuela boundary commission in 1896; government receiver of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1892-98; and counsel of the United States before the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration in Paris in 1893-95. Mr. Coudert has several times declined appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Cow-boys.
During the Revolution a band of marauders, consisting mostly of Tory refugees who adhered to the British interests, infested the neutral ground in Westchester county, N. Y., between the American and British lines, and because they stole many cattle were called Cowboys.
They generally plundered the Whigs, or adherents of the Continental Congress; but, like their opponents, the Skinners, they were not always scrupulous in the choice of their victims.
In recent years the phrase has been applied to the men employed on the great cattle-ranches of the West and Southwest.
They are a fearless set of fellows and expert horsemen.
Many modern cow-boys were mustered into the two volunteer cavalry regiments for service in the war with Spain (1898), popularly known as the Rough Riders.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cromwell , Bartlett Jefferson 1857 - (search)
Cromwell, Bartlett Jefferson 1857-
Naval officer; born in Georgia; entered the navy in 1857, and during the Civil War served on the St. Lawrence, Quaker City, Conemaugh, and Proteus, with the South Atlantic and East Gulf blockading squadrons; took part in the attacks on Morris Island and Battery Gregg.
He commanded the naval rendezvous in Philadelphia in 1885; was promoted captain in 1889; commodore in 1898; and admiral in 1899; and was appointed commandant of the Portsmouth navy-yard, March 20, 1900.
Cromwell, Oliver
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dahlgren , Madeleine Vinton ,1835 -1898 (search)
Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, 1835-1898
Author; born in Gallipolis, O., about 1835; widow of Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren.
She established and was the vice-president for several years of the Literary Society of Washington; was opposed to woman suffrage, against which she published a weekly paper for two years and also sent.
a petition bearing many signatures to Congress, requesting that women should not be given the elective franchise.
Popes Pius IX.
and Leo XIII.
several times thanked her for the various services she had rendered to the Roman Catholic Church.
Her publications include Thoughts on Female suffrage; Memoirs of John A. Dahlgren, etc. She died in Washington, D. C., May 28, 1898.
Daiquiri,
A sea-coast town in the province of Santiago, about 15 miles east of Santiago, Cuba.
It was here that the American army of invasion disembarked after the declaration of war against Spain in 1898.
After Gen. William Rufus Shafter (q. v.), commander of the expedition, had accepted the offer of the services of the Cuban troops under General Garcia, he furnished them with rations and ammunition.
A number of sharp-shooters, machine-guns, and mountain artillery were landed to aid the Cubans in clearing the hills, after which 6,000 men were put ashore on June 22.
The landing was difficult on account of the defective transport facilities, but still the Spaniards could offer no serious opposition, as they were held in check by the Cubans and the shells of the American warships, and also by the feint of Admiral Sampson to bombard Juragua.
On June 23, 6,000 more troops were landed, and a division under Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Lawton (q. v.) marched to Siboney (q. v.) in order to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Cushman Kellogg ,1838 - (search)
Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-
Statesman; born in Henderson, N. Y., June 16, 1838;
Cushman Kellogg Davis. graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857; studied law and began practice in Waukesha, Wis. During the Civil War he served three years in the Union army.
In 1865 he removed to St. Paul, Minn. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature in 1867; United States district attorney for Minnesota in 1868-73; governor of Minnesota in 1874-75; and elected to the United States Senate in 1887, 1893, and 1899.
For several years he was chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, and familiarity with the international affairs of the United States led to his appointment as a member of the commission to negotiate peace with Spain after the war of 1898.
He published The law in Shakespeare.
He died in St. Paul, Nov. 27, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , George Whitefield ,1839 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Varina Anne Jefferson ,1864 -1898 (search)
Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson, 1864-1898
author; second daughter of Jefferson Davis; born in Richmond, Va., June 27, 1864; known popularly in the South as the Daughter of the Confederacy.
Her childhood was mostly spent abroad, and for several years she devoted herself to literature.
Her works include An Irish knight of the nineteenth century; Sketch of the life of Robert Emmet; The veiled Doctor; Foreign education for American girls; and A romance of summer seas.
She died at Narraganset Pier, R. I., Sept. 18, 1898.