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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Geronimo, Apache Indian chief (search)
Geronimo, Apache Indian chief ; became a war-chief when sixteen years old, and for almost fifty years led a band of bloodthirsty savages; was a constant terror to the settlers in the Southwest, where he perpetrated many frightful atrocities. He was captured near Prescott, Ariz., in 1886, by Generals Miles and Lawton, after a continued chase of four years, at the expense of hundreds of lives. He was first Geronimo. imprisoned at Mount Vernon, Ala., but later at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ogdensburg, battles at (search)
Ogdensburg, battles at The Present site of Fort presentation. present city of Ogdensburg, N. Y., was a little village in 1812, at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River. The British village of Prescott was on the opposite side of the St. Lawrence. A threatened invasion of northern New York from that quarter caused Gen. Jacob Brown to be sent to Ogdensburg to garrison old Fort Presentation, or Oswegatchie, at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River. Brown arrived on Oct. 1, and the next day a Ba, and by resident miscreants. Every house in the village but three was entered, and the public property carried over to Canada. Two armed schooners, fast in the ice, were burned, and the barracks near the river were laid in ashes. Fifty-two prisoners were taken to Prescott. The Americans lost in the affair, besides the prisoners, five killed and fifteen wounded; the British loss was six killed and forty-eight wounded. They immediately evacuated the place, and the fugitive citizens returned.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arizona, (search)
nd of Chiricahua Indians in the valley of the Gila begins......April 19, 1883 Acts to establish an insane asylum at Phoenix, a normal school at Tempe, and the University of Arizona at Tucson......January–March, 1885 Act providing that no polygamist or bigamist shall vote or hold office......January–March, 1885 Congress appropriates $2,000 to repair the ruin of Casa Grande, reserving from settlement the entire site of the ancient city......March 2, 1889 State capital removed from Prescott to Phoenix......Feb. 4, 1890 Forty lives lost by broken mining-dam on the Hassayampa River......Feb. 23, 1890 Friday after Feb. 1 each year made a legal holiday as Labor Day......Jan. 19–March 19, 1891 Yuma devastated by flood......Feb. 27, 1891 Eleven bills submitted to Governor Zulick for approval, March 21, 1889; unsigned, as sixty consecutive days had passed since the organization of the legislature. The territorial Supreme Court declared the session legal for sixty days of<