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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
little less than absurd, inasmuch as it often produces results which were not intended, or even contemplated, by the parties. In 1817 the navies of the United States and Great Britain on the lakes were about evenly matched, and numbered some twenty-five wooden vessels each. No iron or steel vessels then existed, and steam had not yet been used in ships-of-war. There was no communication for vessels from one lake to another, except from Lake Erie to Lake Huron, and from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan, and there was no passage from the lakes to the ocean. The Welland Canal was not opened for small vessels until 1833, and the chain of St. Lawrence canals was not completed until 1848. The shores of the lower lakes were sparsely settled, and the region of the upper lakes was an unexplored wilderness inhabited by savages. The chain of lakes was the only pathway of commerce to the West and Northwest. The war had left the Americans and Canadians along the border in bad humor and not a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sioux Indians, or Dakota, Indians, (search)
ful tribe of Indians, who were found by the French, in 1640, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The Algonquians called them Nadowessioux, whence they came to be called Sioux. They occupied the vast domain extending from the Arkansas River, in the south, to the western tributary of Lake Winnipeg, in the north, and westward to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. They have been classed into four grand divisions— namely, the Winnebagoes, who inhabited the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, among the Algonquians; the Assiniboines, or Sioux proper (the most northerly of the nation); the Minnetaree group, in Minnesota; and the Southern Sioux, who dwelt in the country between the Arkansas and Platte rivers, and whose hunting-grounds extended to the Rocky Mountains. In 1679 Jean Duluth, a French officer, set up the Gallic standard among them near Lake St. Peter, and A Sioux village. the next year he rescued from them Father Hennepin, who first explored
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sylvania, proposed State of (search)
Sylvania, proposed State of Under Jefferson's plan for the creation of new States from what was known in 1784 as the Northwest Territory. The third tier of projected new States spread from the forty-fifth parallel of latitude to the Lake of the Woods; was covered with dense forests of pine, hickory, and oak; and was designated as Sylvania. Immediately beneath this tract was a narrow strip stretching from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. This was called Michigania, and a part of it now forms the centre of Wisconsin. See Saratoga, proposed State of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Homestead bill vetoed by the President......June 22, 1860 [Senate fails to pass it over the veto by three votes.] First session adjourns......June 25, 1860 Steamship Great Eastern sails from England, June 17, reaching New York in eleven days, two hours......June 28, 1860 Kansas elects a convention to draft a second constitution; it meets......July 5, 1860 [Under this, the Wyandotte constitution, prohibiting slavery, Kansas was afterwards admitted.] Lady Elgin, a steamer on Lake Michigan, sunk by collision with the schooner Augusta......morning of Sept. 8, 1860 [Out of 385 persons on board, 287 were lost.] William Walker, Nicaraguan filibuster, captured and shot at Truxillo, Nicaragua......Sept. 12, 1860 Prince of Wales arrives at Detroit, Mich., from Canada......Sept. 21, 1860 After visiting Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, he embarks for England from Portland, Me.......Oct. 20, 1860 Nineteenth Pre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Idaho (search)
hich separates it from Iowa and Missouri; Wisconsin bounds it on the north, Lake Michigan touching the northeastern corner; Indiana on the east, and Kentucky on the to the Arkansas. Returning, they ascend the Illinois, making their way to Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Chicago rivers......1673 Marquette, purposing to Chicago, probably built by M. de la Durantaye in 1685, appears on a map of Lake Michigan dated......1688 Mission established at the great town of the Illinois isning appointed Secretary of the Interior......Sept. 1, 1866 Tunnel under Lake Michigan to supply Chicago with water completed; length 2 miles......December, 1866 71 Deepening of the Illinois and Michigan canal to create a current from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River, begun in 1865, is completed......July 18, 1871 Il-stone of new post-office building, Chicago......Oct. 9, 1899 Water from Lake Michigan turned into Chicago drainage canal......Jan. 2, 1900 Methodist general c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Indiana, (search)
Indiana, One of the north central States of the United States, extends from the Ohio River, which separates the State from Kentucky on the south, to Lake Michigan and the State of Michigan, which bound it on the north. Ohio lies to the east and Illinois bounds it on the west. It is limited in lat. by 37° 47′ to 41° 46′ N., and....Sept. 10, 1814 Congress passes an enabling act for Indiana; the northern boundary a line drawn east and west 10 miles north of the southern extremity of Lake Michigan......April 19, 1816 Ordinance accepting the enabling act passed by a convention which meets at Corydon, June 10......June 29, 1816 State constitution adoat Harmony to Robert Dale Owen, of Scotland, a philanthropist, who attempts to establish a community, naming the place New Harmony......1825 State road from Lake Michigan to Madison on the Ohio begun......1830 Thomas Lincoln, with his family, removes to Macon county, Ill......1830 Indiana Historical Society incorporated...<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
Wisconsin, lakes Michigan and Huron, and is 318 miles long, east and west. The lower peninsula extends north between Lake Michigan on the west and Lake Huron and the Detroit River on the east to the Strait of Mackinaw, a distance of 280 miles. CanaUnited States government, specifies that the northern boundary should be a direct line from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of Miami Bay ......1862 First United States land office opened in Detroit under act of Congress......March 26, 1804 Indiana Territory divided; all north of a line east from the southerly extremity of Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, and north through the lake to the northern boundary of the United States to be the Territory of Michigan for Michigan approved......June 15, 1836 Wisconsin Territory formed, comprising all of Michigan Territory west of Lake Michigan......1836 Convention at Ann Arbor rejects the enabling act, as giving Ohio 470 square miles belonging to Michigan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
and long. 86° 53′ and 92° 53′ W., is bounded on the north by Lake Superior and Michigan, on the east by Michigan and Lake Michigan, on the south by Illinois, and west by Iowa and Minnesota, the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers marking almost the en Wisconsin River, June 10, and down the Wisconsin, discovering the Mississippi......June 17, 1673 Marquette coasts Lake Michigan from Green Bay, reaching the site of Chicago......Dec. 4, 1674 La Salle, leaving his ship the Griffin at Green Bay, sails up the coast of Lake Michigan......1679 Daniel Greysolon Duluth ascends the Bois Brule from Lake Superior, and descends the St. Croix to the Mississippi River......1680 Father Louis Hennepin, with Duluth, journeys from Lake St. Francis Fort Edward Augustus......Oct. 12, 1761 English abandon Fort Edward Augustus on account of the Pontiac War, cross Lake Michigan to L'Arbre Croche and thence to Montreal......June 21, 1763 Trade with the Chippewas at Chequamegon Bay reopened b<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, treaty of (search)
the use of the St. Clair Flats Canal uon terms of equality with the citizens of the United States, and further engages to urge upon the State governments to secure to the subjects of her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals connected with the navigation of the lakes or rivers traversed by or contiguous to the boundary-line between the possessions of the high contracting parties on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States. Art. 28. The navigation of Lake Michigan shall, also, for the term of years mentioned in Art. 33 of this treaty, be free and open, for the purposes of commerce, to the subjects of her Britannic Majesty, subject to any laws and regulations of the United States, or of the States bordering thereon, not inconsistent with such privilege or free navigation. Art. 29. It is agreed that, for the term of years mentioned in Art. 33 of this treaty, goods, wares, or merchandise, arriving at the ports of New York, Boston, and Portland, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wise, John 1808- (search)
Wise, John 1808- Balloonist; born in Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 24, 1808; made his first ascension at Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1835, and ascended to an altitude of 13,000 feet, Aug. 11, 1838. On Aug. 15, 1851, he made an ascent from Zanesville, O., to experiment on the action of falling bodies, and discovered that they always fall spirally, turning on an axis as they descend. In 1859 he made a celebrated trip from St. Louis to Jefferson county, N. Y. On Sept. 28, 1879, with a number of companions, he ascended from St. Louis, Mo., in a balloon named the Pathfinder, which drifted in a northeasterly direction. The last that was ever seen of it was as it passed over Carlinville, Ill. Later the body of one of his companions was washed ashore on Lake Michigan. In all, Mr. Wise made over 230 ascensions. He was the author of System of aeronautics.
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