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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
ensburgAug. 24, 1814 PlattsburgSept. 11, 1814 North PointSept. 12, 1814 Fort McHenry (Bombardment of)Sept. 13, 1814 Fort BowerSept. 15, 1814 Fort Erie (Sortie from)Sept. 17, 1814 ChippewaOct. 15, 1814 Lyon's CreekOct. 19, 1814 PensacolaNov. 7, 1814 Villere‘s Plantation (New Orleans)Dec. 23, 1814 Rodriguez's Canal (New Orleans)Jan. 1, 1815 New OrleansJan. 8, 1815 Fort St. PhilipJan. 9, 1815 Point Petre (Ga.)Jan. 13, 1815 naval engagements. Chesapeake and Leopard (impressment, formeensburgAug. 24, 1814 PlattsburgSept. 11, 1814 North PointSept. 12, 1814 Fort McHenry (Bombardment of)Sept. 13, 1814 Fort BowerSept. 15, 1814 Fort Erie (Sortie from)Sept. 17, 1814 ChippewaOct. 15, 1814 Lyon's CreekOct. 19, 1814 PensacolaNov. 7, 1814 Villere's Plantation (New Orleans)Dec. 23, 1814 Rodriguez's Canal (New Orleans)Jan. 1, 1815 New OrleansJan. 8, 1815 Fort St. PhilipJan. 9, 1815 Point Petre (Ga.)Jan. 13, 1815 naval engagements. Chesapeake and Leopard (impressment, forme
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pensacola. (search)
street, and showers of bullets from the houses and gardens. The Americans, led by Captain Laval, captured the battery, when the frightened governor appeared with a white flag and promised to comply with any terms if Jackson would spare the town. An instant surrender of all the forts was demanded and promised, and, after some delay, it was done. The British, also alarmed by this sudden attack, blew up Fort Barancas, 6 miles from Pensacola, which they occupied; and early in the morning, Nov. 7, 1814, their ships left the harbor, bearing away, besides the British, the Spanish commandant of the forts, with 400 men and a considerable number of Indians. The Spanish governor (Manriquez) was indignant because of the flight of his British friends, and the Creeks were deeply impressed with a feeling that it would be imprudent to again defy the wrath of General Jackson. He had, by this expedition, accomplished three important results—namely, the expulsion of the British from Pensacola, the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alabama (search)
k and are repulsed......Jan. 22-24, 1814 Calebee River. Indian attack repulsed by General Floyd......Jan. 27, 1814 General Jackson, reinforced, attacks Indians fortified at Great Horse-shoe Bend (Tohopeka) of Tallapoosa River......March 27, 1814 [By this, the bloodiest battle of the war, the power of the Indians was destroyed.] Indians by treaty cede to the United States nearly half the present State of Alabama......Aug. 9, 1814 General Jackson captures Pensacola, Fla.......Nov. 7, 1814 Chickasaw Indians, by treaty, relinquish all claim to the country south of the Tennessee for $65,000......Sept. 14, 1816 Territory east of what is now Mississippi organized as the Territory of Alabama......March 3, 1817 William Wyatt Bibb appointed governor by Monroe......1817 Territorial legislature first meets at St. Stephens......Jan. 19, 1818 Congress authorizes Alabama to form a State constitution......March 2, 1819 Convention at Huntsville to frame a constitution
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
.....May 12, 1812 Monument erected in the public square at St. Augustine by order of the Spanish Cortes, to commemorate the liberal constitution granted to Spain and her colonies......Oct: 17, 1812 British fleet enters Pensacola Harbor and garrisons forts Michel and Barrancas with British troops, by consent of the Spanish governor......August, 1814 General Jackson, with 5,000 Tennessee volunteers, captures Pensacola and Fort Michel; Fort Barrancas is blown up by the British......Nov. 7, 1814 United States troops, under Col. Duncan L. Clinch, unexpectedly reinforced by Creek Indians on the same errand, and aided by two gunboats, attack a fort on the Apalachicola River established by the British as a refuge for runaway negroes, and commanded by a negro named Garcia; a hot shot from gunboat 154, entering the magazine, blows it up; out of 350 men, women, and children in the fort not over fifty escape......Aug. 24, 1816 By order of the President of the United States, Captain