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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barre , Antoine Le Fevre De La , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bell , Charles H. , 1798 -1875 (search)
Bell, Charles H., 1798-1875
Naval officer; born in New York, Aug. 15, 1798; entered the naval service in June, 1812; served with Decatur in 1813-14; with Chauncey, on Lake Ontario, in 1814; and with Decatur again, in the Mediterranean, in 1815.
He was with the squadron in the West Indies (1824-29) operating against the pirates there.
In 1860 he was in command of the Norfolk navy-yard: commanded the Pacific squadron in 1862-64, and the navy-yard at Brooklyn 1865-68.
In July, 1866, he was made a rear-admiral.
he died in New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 19, 1875.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown , Jacob , 1775 -1828 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burlington Heights , expedition to. (search)
Burlington Heights, expedition to.
The British maintained for some time a fortified camp at Burlington Heights, at the western end of Lake Ontario.
There they made a depository of stores; and to capture these an expedition, composed of 300 land troops, under Col. Winfield Scott, borne by the fleet of Commodore Chauncey, left the mouth of the Niagara River, July 28, 1813.
The usual feeble guard over the stores had just been reinforced.
Convinced that their forces were insufficient to seize the prizes, Scott and Chauncey concluded to attack York, from which the British reinforcements had just been sent.
The fleet bore the troops across the lake, and entered the harbor of York on July 31.
Scott landed his troops without opposition; took possession of the place; burned the barracks, public storehouses and stores, and eleven transports; destroyed five pieces of cannon, and bore away as spoils one heavy gun and a considerable quantity of flour.
They found in York (Toronto) the sic
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain , Samuel de 1567 -1635 (search)