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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burgoyne, Sir John, 1723-1792 (search)
knowledge the independence of the colonies. Efforts were made to supply the place of the lost troops by fresh recruits. Liverpool and Manchester undertook to raise each 1,000 men, and efforts were made to induce London to follow the example. The new lord mayor worked zealously for that purpose, but failed, and the ministry had to be content with a subscription of $100,000 raised among their adherents. Nor did the plan succeed in the English counties. In Scotland it was more successful; Glasgow and Edinburgh both raised a regiment, and several more were enlisted in the Scotch Highlands by the great landholders of that region, to whom the appointment of the officers was conceded. The surrender created despondency among the English Tories, and Lord North, the Prime Minister, was alarmed. Burgoyne returned to England, on his parole, May, 1778. Being blamed, he solicited in vain for a court-martial to try his case, but he ably vindicated himself on the floor of Parliament, and pu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
burned all the government property and fled. Skirmish near Covington, Ky.—11. Maysville, Ky., taken by the Confederates. Bloomfield, Mo., captured by the Confederates, and recaptured by the Unionists the next day.—12. Eureka, Mo., captured by the Nationals.—13. Confederates attacked Harper's Ferry, and the next night the National cavalry escaped from that post, and it was surrendered on the 15th.—17. Cumberland Gap, Tenn., evacuated by the Union forces. Confederate soldiers captured at Glasgow, Ky.—18. A day of fasting and prayer held by the Confederates. Prentiss, Miss., shelled and burned.—19. Confederates evacuated Harper's Ferry. Confederates attacked Owensboro, Ky., and were repulsed.—21. Sharp skirmish on the Virginia side of the Potomac near Shepherdstown, Va., and the Nationals forced back across the river with considerable loss. Cavalry fight near Lebanon Junction, Ky.— 22. President Lincoln's preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation for the slaves issue
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Expositions, industrial. (search)
ty. The United States stands alone in maintaining four permanent expositions: one in the former Art Palace of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, now known as the Field Columbian Museum; another in the former Memorial Hall of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia; and two, known as Commercial Museums, in Philadelphia. The following is a list of the principal industrial expositions of the world, to nearly all of which the United States has been a large contributor: London, 1851; Cork, 1852; New York, New Brunswick, Madras, and Dublin, each 1853; Munich, 1854; Paris, 1855; Edinburgh and Manchester, each 1857; London, 1862; Paris, 1867; Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876; Paris, 1878; Atlanta, 1881; Louisville, 1883; New Orleans, 1884-85; Paris, 1889; Chicago, 1893; Atlanta, 1895; Nashville, 1897; Omaha, 1898; Omaha and Philadelphia, each 1899; Paris, 1900; Buffalo and Glasgow, each 1901. For details of the most noteworthy of these expositions, see their respective titles.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free trade. (search)
other branches they rise to 50, 83, 100, and even to 150 and 160 per cent. The quasidomestic trades of carpenters, bricklayers, and masons, in the great marts of Glasgow and Manchester, show a mean increase of 63 per cent. for the first, 65 per cent. for the second, and 47 per cent. for the third. The lowest weekly wage named for contemplate with a peculiar dread the effect of free trade upon shipping, I further quote Mr. Giffen on the monthly wages of seamen in 1833 and 1883, in Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, and London. The percentage of increase, since we have passed from the protective system of the navigation law into free trade, is, in Bristol, 66 per cent.; in Glasgow, 55 per cent.; in Liverpool (for different classes), from 25 per cent. to 70 per cent.; and in London, from 45 per cent. to 69 per cent. Mr. Giffen has given the figures in all the cases where he could be sufficiently certain of exactitude. No such return, at once exact and comprehensive, can be supplied in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gleig, George Robert 1796-1888 (search)
Gleig, George Robert 1796-1888 Author; born in Stirling, Scotland, April 20, 1796; was educated at Glasgow and Baliol College. His publications include Campaigns of Washington and New Orleans, etc. He died in Berkshire, England, July 11, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorrie, Peter Douglas 1813-1884 (search)
Gorrie, Peter Douglas 1813-1884 Clergyman; born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 21, 1813; came to the United States in 1820, and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the author of The churches and sects in the United States; Black River conference Memorial, etc. He died in Potsdam, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grahame, James 1790-1842 (search)
Grahame, James 1790-1842 Historian; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Dec. 21, 1790; graduated at Cambridge University; and admitted to the Scottish bar in 1812. His publications include History of the rise and progress of the United States of North America till the British Revolution of 1688; Who is to blame? or cursory review of the American apology for American accession to negro slavery, etc. He died in London, England, July 3, 1842.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harte, Francis Bret 1839- (search)
Harte, Francis Bret 1839- Author; born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839; went to California early in life and took up mining, but later engaged in newspaper work. In 1864-67 he was secretary of the United States branch mint at San Francisco, and afterwards editor of the Overland monthly. In 1878 he was appointed United States consul at Crefeld, Germany, where he served two years, and held the similar office at Glasgow, Scotland, till 1885. He is the author of many works, among them The luck of roaring camp; The outcasts of Poker flat; The heathen Chinee; Echoes of the foot-hills; Drift from two shores; A Waif of the Plains; In a hollow of the Hills; Narker's luck; Trinity College, Hartford. Tales of trail and town; Mr. Jack Hanland's Meditations, and other stories, etc. A new edition of his complete poetical works was published in 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Husbandry, Patrons of. (search)
there were 19,000. Its aims were excellent, and it was the first secret society that admitted both men and women to membership. Hutcheson, Francis, philosopher; born in County Down, Ireland, Aug. 8, 1694; was Professor of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow in 1729-46. He clearly perceived the coming independence of the English-American colonies. When, he inquired, have colonies a right to be released from the dominion of the parent state? He answered his own question, saying: Whenever they are ence was the primary aim of the Americans. Governor Shirley tried to allay the apprehension by declaring that the various governments of the colonies had such different constitutions that it would be impossible for them to confederate in an attempt to throw off the British yoke. At all events, he said, they could not maintain such an independency without a strong naval force, which it must forever be in the power of Great Britain to hinder them from having. Hutcheson died in Glasgow in 1746.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone 1899- (search)
Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone 1899- Merchant; born in Glasgow of Irish parentage. He owns vast tea estates in Ceylon; is president of the Thomas J. Lipton Company, pork packers, in Chicago, and proprietor of the Lipton Refrigerator Car lines of that city. These interests often bring him to the United States, but he is best known here as the owner of the yachts Erin and Shamrock, and especially in connection with the latter, with which he competed in the fall of 1899 for the America's cup (q. v.) with the American yacht, Columbia, by which the race was won. During this contest he won hosts of American friends by his fairness and geniality. In October, 1900, he sent another challenge to the New York Yacht Club for a race to take place in the fall of 1901. Sir Thomas is a man of unbounded generosity to British benevolent interests. In 1898 he sent a check for $10,000 for the relief of the sick and wounded American soldiers of the war with Spain, and in 1900 he gave the New York Y
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