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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 20 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chevalier, Michel 1806- (search)
Chevalier, Michel 1806- Political economist; born in Limoges, France, Jan. 13, 1806; educated in a polytechnic school; came to the United States to examine its canals and railroads. His publications include Lettres sur l'amerique du Nord; Introduction aux rapports du jury international; Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États-unis et des travaux qui en dependent; Cours daeconomie; L'isthme de Panama; La liberte aux États-unis; L'expedition du Mexique; Le Mexique ancien et moderne, etc. He died Nov. 28, 187
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Commerce of the United States. (search)
eries in California and Australia, and later in other parts of the world, have greatly increased the volume of the circulating medium and encouraged the creation of a single and well-defined standard of value, so that the merchant may make his sales and purchases with an assurance that payments will be made in a measure of value acceptable to the whole world, and losses and uncertainty of traffic thus avoided. The supply of this precious metal has increased enormously during the century. Chevalier estimated that the amount of gold in Europe in 1492 was but $60,000,000. From that time to the beginning of the century, the average gold production was about $8,000,000 a year; from 1800 to 1850, about $15,000,000 a year; and, since that date, it has ranged steadily upward, until it has reached over $300,000,000 a year, thus multiplying many times the stock of the standard metal of the world. The result of this is that 95 per cent. of the commerce of the world is now carried on between n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fleury, Louis 1740- (search)
Fleury, Louis 1740- Chevalier and Viscount De, military officer; born in Limoges, France, about 1740; was educated for an engineer, and, coming to America, received a captain's commission from Washington. For his good conduct in the campaign of 1777, Congress gave him a horse and commission of lieutenantcolonel, Nov. 26, 1777; and in the winter of 1778 he was inspector under Steuben. He was adjutant-general of Lee's division in June, 1779, and was so distinguished Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel De Fleury. at the assault on Stony Point, July, 1779, that Congress gave him thanks and a silver medal. De Fleury returned to France soon after the affair at Stony Point, before the medal was struck; and it was probably never in his possession, for it seems to have been lost, probably while Congress was in session at Princeton. In April, 1859, a boy found it while digging in a garden at Princeton. De Fleury, on his return to France, joined the French troops under Rochambeaux
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
ed a greater portion of the Huguenots there, and hanged some of them upon trees, with the inscription over them, Not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans. The number of Huguenots murdered there was 142. Ribault's vessels meanwhile had been wrecked below St. Augustine, and while making his way towards Fort Carolina, with about 300 men, they were caught by the Spaniards and massacred. Laudonniere and a few others escaped from the St. John, and so ended the Huguenot colony. A fiery Frenchman, Chevalier Dominic de Gourges, a Roman Catholic, determined to avenge this outrage. He sold his property to obtain money to fit out an expedition to Florida. He kept his destination a secret, even from his followers. He arrived in Florida in the spring of 1568, and was joined by the natives in an attack upon two forts on the St. John occupied by the Spaniards below Fort Carolina. The strong places were captured, and the whole of the Spaniards were slaughtered, excepting a few whom De Gourges hang
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1879 (search)
. But Morse triumphed everywhere, and he received most substantial testimonials of the profound respect which his great discovery and invention had won for him. In 1846 Yale College conferred on him the degree of Ll.D., and in 1848 the Sultan of Turkey gave him the decoration of the Nishan Iftikar. Gold medals for scientific merit were given him by the King of Prussia, the King of Wurtemberg, and the Emperor of Austria. In 1856 he received from the Emperor of the French the cross. of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1857 the King of Denmark gave him the cross of Knight Commander of the first class of the Danebrog. In 1858 the Queen of Spain presented him the cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic; the King of Italy gave him the cross of Ss. Maurice and Lazarus, and from the King of Portugal he received the cross of the Order of the Tower and the Sword. A banquet was given him in London (1856) by British telegraph companies, and in Paris (1858) by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Neuville, Chevalier de La 1740- (search)
Neuville, Chevalier de La 1740- Military officer; born in France in 1740; became an officer in the French army in 1756. He and his brother offered their services to General Washington, and in 1778 Chevalier was appointed inspector under General Gates. Not receiving the advance in rank which he hoped for in the American army, he resigned and returned to France, where he died at the end of the eighteenth century. His brother, Normiont, served in the American army for two years, when he also returned to France
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Panama Canal. (search)
famous engineer died Dec. 7, 1894, it is said of a broken heart. The following is a short chronology of the various explorations and operations: First exploration for canal route by H. de la Serna1527-28 Canal proposed by Lopez de Gomarfa1551 Canal proposed by William Paterson1698 Gogonche laid his scheme for a canal before the Spanish government1799 Humboldt proposed a canal1803 First formal exploration made by Lloyd and Falmark1827-29 Garella's survey1843 Canal scheme of Michel Chevalier proposed1844 Survey for Panama Railroad by Col. G. W. Hughes, U. S. A.1849 Panama Railroad begunJan., 1850 Exploration of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N.1850 Exploration of Dr. Cullen1850 Ship-canal proposed by the Bulwer-Clayton treatyApril 19, 1850 Exploration of J. C. Trautwine1852 Exploration of Capt. Prevost, R. N.1853 Exploration of Lionel Gisborne1854 Exploration of Lieut. Strain, U. S. N.1854 Exploration of Captain Kennish1855 First train from ocean to oceanJan. 28, 1855 Explor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
f the Mississippi, opposite the lower portion of the State, during......1543 Kentucky included in the charter of Virginia......1584 Colonel Wood, seeking trade with the Indians, explores Kentucky as far as the Mississippi......1654 Captain Bolt, from Virginia, travels in Kentucky......1670 Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, Louis Joliet, and five other Frenchmen, spend several days at the mouth of the Ohio......July, 1673 Chevalier Robert de la Salle and his lieutenant, Chevalier Henri de Tonti, with others, pass from the Illinois River down the Mississippi, stop a few days at the mouth of the Ohio, and claim both sides of the Mississippi for France......February, 1682 A vast tract, including Kentucky, deeded to the British by the Iroquois, by treaty at Albany, N. Y., concluded......1684 M. Longueil, from Canada, descends the Ohio, and discovers Big Bone Lick on a small creek which flows into the Ohio about 20 miles above the falls......1739 Dr. Walker,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
h the desire to promote the fur trade or immigration, and through semi-scientific or scientific curiosity, to the impulses of the literary artist or to the religious aims of the missionary. George Rogers Clark, Logan, and Boone were pioneers. Fearon, Darby, and Faux came to study conditions for emigrants. Bernard, Tyrone Power, and Fanny Kemble were actors. Wilson, Nuttall, and Audubon were professed ornithologists; the Bartrams and Michaux, botanists. Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, Chevalier a student of political economy, Fanny Wright a social reformer. Grund, Combe the phrenologist, and Miss Martineau had a special interest in humanitarian projects. Richard Weston was a bookseller, John M. Peck a Baptist missionary, DeWitt Clinton, who explored the route of the future Erie Canal, a statesman. Many others had eyes trained in surveying. Boone was a surveyor, like Washington himself-and Washington may be classed with the observers and diarists. Buckingham, a traveller by v
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
William Henry, 333 Chanson des Sauvages, 188 Chapman, W., 231 Character of the province of Maryland, 151 Characteristics of literature, 244 Charlemont, 225 n., 317 Charles I, 34 Charles II, 125 Charles II, 220 Charlevoix, 193 Charlotte, 286 Charlotte Temple, 286 Charms of fancy, 165 Chastellux, F. J., 190 Chateaubriand, 190, 194, 212 Chatham, 91, 99 Chaucer, 176, 265, 274 Chauncy, Charles, 73, 75-78, 79, 80 Chesterfield, 102, 110 Chevalier, Michel, 190 Child, Lydia Maria, 308, 310, 319, 324 Childe Harold, 265 Choice (Dr. Benjamin Church), 162 Choice (Pomfret), 162 Christian commonwealth, the, 41, 42 Christian morals, 104 Chronological history of New England, 20, 28 Church, Benjamin, 25, 162, 171 Churches quarrel Espoused, 52, 55 Churchill, 171, 173, 174, 182 Cicero, 103, 202, 276 Citizen of New Haven, Letters of A, 148 Citizen of the world, the, 238 Clap, Rector, 81 Clapp, W. W., Jr., 22
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