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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
ver Bay, near Canso, N. S.25,107 Dover Bay, N. S., to New York21,776 Gulf of Mexico System8459 ————— Total127,342 Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques194,720 Brest (France) to Cape Cod, Mass.13,250 Brest (France) to St. Pierre-Miquelon.12,291 St. Pierre to Cape Cod, Mass.1828 Cape Cod, Mass., to New York1325 Other branch lines2422 ————— Total2511,836 African Direct Telegraph Co82,938 Black Sea Telegraph Co1337 Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co.: Carcavellos, near Lisbon (Portugal), to Madeira, to St. Vincent (Cape Verde Island), to Pernambuco (Brazil)67,375 Central and South American Telegraph Co157,500 Compagnie Allemande des Cables Telegraphiques11,114 Compania Telegrafico-Telefonica del Plata128 Compania Telegrafico del Rio de la Plata.128 Cuba Submarine Telegraph Co41,049 Direct Spanish Telegraph Co4710 Direct West India Cable Co.: Bermuda-Turk's Island and Turk's Island-Jamaica21,280 Eastern and South African Telegraph Co138,907 Easter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)
Convention of Rights of neutrals at seaLimaJuly 22, 1856 Convention of ClaimsLimaDec. 20, 1862 Convention of ClaimsLimaJan. 12, 1863 Convention of Adjustment of claimsLimaDec. 4, 1868 Treaty of Friendship, commerce, navigationLimaSept. 6, 1870 Treaty of ExtraditionLimaSept. 12, 1870 Treaty of Friendship, commerce, navigationLimaAug. 31, 1887 Peru-Bolivia Confederation: Convention of Peace, friendship, commerce, navigationLimaNov. 30, 1836 Portugal: Treaty of Commerce and navigationLisbonAug. 26, 1840 Convention of Portugal to pay $91,727 claims, etc.WashingtonFeb. 26, 1851 Prussia: Treaty of Amity and commerce***July–Sept. 1785 Treaty of Amity and commerceBerlinJuly 11, 1799 Treaty of Commerce and navigationWashingtonMay 1, 1828 Treaty of Regulating citizenship of emigrantsBerlinFeb. 22, 1868 Prussia and German Confederation: Convention of ExtraditionWashingtonJune 16, 1852 Roumania: Convention of ConsularBucharestJune 5-17, 1881 Convention of Navigation, fishery,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ied in Spain, Feb. 12, 1512. Explorer of the South American coast......1499-1504 Cabral, Pedro Alvarez de, Portuguese navigator, died about 1526; the discoverer of Brazil......April 22, 1500 Cortereal, Gasper, Portuguese navigator, born in Lisbon......died 1501 [Sails along the coast of North America and names Labrador; returns to Lisbon and sails on his second voyage, 1501, but never returns.] Bobadilla, Francisco, born in Spain, sent to Santo Domingo to relieve Columbus, sent ColuLisbon and sails on his second voyage, 1501, but never returns.] Bobadilla, Francisco, born in Spain, sent to Santo Domingo to relieve Columbus, sent Columbus and his brother Diego back to Spain in chains. He loses his life by shipwreck on his return voyage......June 29, 1502 Pinzon, Vicente Yañez; brother of Alonso; born in Spain in 1460; died in Spain in 1524. Commands the Niña in Columbus's first voyage. Discovers Cape St. Augustine, Brazil, Jan. 20, 1500, and the mouth of the Amazon, Jan. 26. Explores the east coast of Yucatan......1506 The western continent is named for him by Martin Waldseemuller, a German geographer, in a book pr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 (search)
Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 Navigator; born in Sines, Portugal, presumably about 1469; was appointed by Emanuel of Portugal commander of an expedition to find an ocean route to the East Indies. He sailed from Lisbon in July, 1497, and reached Calicut in the following November, after having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope; returned to Lisbon in 1499; made a second voyage to India in 1502-3; and was appointed viceroy there in the year 1524. He died in Cochin, India, Dec. 24, 1524. Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 Navigator; born in Sines, Portugal, presumably about 1469; was appointed by Emanuel of Portugal commander of an expedition to find an ocean route to the East Indies. He sailed from Lisbon in July, 1497, and reached Calicut in the following November, after having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope; returned to Lisbon in 1499; made a second voyage to India in 1502-3; and was appointed viceroy there in the year 1524. He died in Cochin, India, Dec. 24, 1524.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de 1717-1787 (search)
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de 1717-1787 Statesman; born in Dijon, France, Dec. 28, 1717. In 1740 he was sent to Lisbon in a diplomatic capacity; in 1750 was minister at the court of the elector of Treves; and from 1755 to 1768 was French ambassador to Turkey. When Louis XVI. succeeded to the throne (1774), Vergennes was minister in Sweden. The King recalled him, and made him minister for foreign affairs in July. He was the minister with whom the American diplomatists had intercourse during the entire Revolutionary War. When he was informed of the proclamation of King George and that it had been determined by the British ministry to burn the town of Boston and desolate the country, he exclaimed, prophetically: The cabinet of the King of England may wish to make North America a desert, but there all its power will be stranded; if ever the English troops quit the borders of the sea, it will be easy to prevent their return. Vergennes could not persuade himself that th
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 34: (search)
men could gather in the folds of the flapping sails, and haul up clew-garnets, her helm was put down, and she rounded gracefully to the now whistling wind, with fore-topsail aback. So rapidly had this been done, and so close was the Alabama upon the chase, that we had just time to sheer clear of her by a little trick of the helm. Our own sail was now shortened, and the boarding-officer dispatched on board the prize. She proved to be the Dunkirk, from New York, with a cargo of grain for Lisbon. There being no evidence of neutral ownership of the cargo, among the papers, she was burned, as soon as her crew could be transferred to the Alabama. We made two novel captures on board this ship—one was a deserter from the Sumter, a worthless sailor out of one of the Northern States, whom we afterward discharged from the Confederate Naval service, in disgrace, instead of hanging him, as we might have done under our Articles of War; and the other a number of very neatly put up tracts in th
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
y array of sails whipping and flapping in the wind, and of yards swinging to and fro, presented itself. At last the little craft managed to come to the wind, and make a halt. She proved to be a Portuguese brig, and the crew had been so alarmed, at being chased and fired at, by night, as to lose all presence of mind, and become incapable of any action whatever, until they were somewhat reassured, by the near presence of our ship and the sound of our voices. She was bound from Pernambuco to Lisbon, with a cargo of hides and sugar. It was, indeed, something like a ghost-chase, to see the Alabama coming, in the dead of night after the little craft, with her seven-league boots on, and those awful trysails of hers spread out in the moonlight like so many winding-sheets. On the day after this adventure, a Dutch bark and an English brig came along; and on the same night, we boarded the English four-master, the Sarah Sands, from the East Indies for Falmouth. At daylight, the next mornin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
t, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him; for he refresheth the soul of his master. When Alexander the Great besieged Patra, he caused thirty trenches to be dug and filled with snow, which was covered with oak branches, and kept a long time. In Portugal, snow is collected in a deep gulley, and grass or green sods, covered with sheep-dung, is thrown over it, and under these it is so well preserved that the whole summer through it is sent the distance of sixty Spanish miles to Lisbon ; at least, such was the case in the last century. In Southern Europe and Asia Minor it may be observed that snow is, and always has been, used instead of ice, being more easily attainable from the summits of the mountains, while ice must be either imported or made artificially. The Appenines, the Sierra Nevada, and other mountains of South Europe, yield an inexhaustible supply in winter in regions where snow seldom or never falls on the plains below, and a very slight protection from th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
th fears of boys, dogs, and crazy donkeys. She avers that she never dreamed of finding her sweet enemy, boys, in Fayal, and has thoughts of returning in the vessel forthwith. Fayal, Friday, November 9 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, and again past all whooping! Nobody ever told us, nobody ever prepared us, we knew nothing of it They told us of the views and the mountains and the ocean, but that we should step suddenly into all the South of Europe at once, set our feet in Lisbon and Madrid and Naples all in one, a place where not a person looks as any person ever looked in America, not a sound but is new! . . . We have had the day that comes but once in a life — the first day in a foreign country. At Singapore or Batavia we should feel no farther from home. It has been a day of absolute intoxication. I have seen no beauty in Nature, I have scarcely looked at the lovely Pico across the bay, in the wonder of this new human existence. From that moment when I stumbl
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Eminent women of the drama. (search)
ian, French, German, and Spanish. At the age of sixteen--in 1855-she made her first public appearance in opera, in the city of Malta. Amina, in Sonnambula, --a customary role of operatic debutantes,--was the character she then assumed; and therein she made a marked and promising success. The unusual power and compass of her voice, and the felicitous method of her execution, speedily became themes of praise with European connoisseurs of music. At Naples, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Madrid, aid Lisbon, her first success was repeated and increased. So, for two years, she prospered, on the continent of Europe, receiving the applause of the people, the cordial favor of musical criticism, and the compliments and honorary gifts of nobles and of monarchs. In 1857 she made her debut in London, in the same company with Ronconi, Gardoni, and Tagliafico, in I Puritani, and thereafter took a high place in the favor of the British public. Her career in England lasted nine years; in the course of w
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