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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.