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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
June 23, 1780 Rocky Mount (N. C.)July 30, 1780 Hanging Rock (N. C.)Aug. 6, 1780 Sander's Creek (near Camden, S. C.）Aug. 16, 1780 King's Mountain (S. C.)Oct. 7, 1780 Fish Dam FordNov. 18, 1780 BlackstocksNov. 20, 1780 CowpensJan. 17, 1781 GuilfordMar. 15, 1781 Hobkirk's HillApril 25, 1781 Ninety-six (Siege of)May and June 1781 Augusta (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)Sept. and Oct. 1781 naval engagements. Hampton, Va. June 23, 1780 Rocky Mount (N. C.)July 30, 1780 Hanging Rock (N. C.)Aug. 6, 1780 Sander's Creek (near Camden, S. C.）Aug. 16, 1780 King's Mountain (S. C.)Oct. 7, 1780 Fish Dam FordNov. 18, 1780 BlackstocksNov. 20, 1780 CowpensJan. 17, 1781 GuilfordMar. 15, 1781 Hobkirk's HillApril 25, 1781 Ninety-six (Siege of)May and June 1781 Augusta (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)Sept. and Oct. 1781 naval engagements. Hampton, Va.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Guilford, battle of. (search)
Guilford, battle of. Resting his troops a while in Virginia, after his race with Cornwallis, Gen. Nathanael Greene (q. v.) recrossed the Dan into North Carolina; and as he moved cautiously forward to foil the efforts of Cornwallis, to embody the Tories of that State, he found himself, March 1, 1781, at the head of about 5,000 troops in good spirits. Feeling strong enough to cope with Cornwallis, he sought an engagement with him; and on the 15th they met near Guilford Court-house, where they fiercely contended for the mastery. The battle-field was about 5 miles from the (present) village of Greensboro, in Guilford county, N. C. Greene had encamped within 8 miles of the earl, on the evening of the 14th, and on the morning of the 15th he moved against his enemy. The latter was prepared The battle of Guilford G. British advancing; 1. First position of British; B. Front line of Americans—North Carolinians; C. Second line of Americans; A. American right wing; E. Maryland and Vi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North, Frederick 1733-1792 (search)
North, Frederick 1733-1792 Second Earl of Guilford, and eighth Baron North, statesman; born in England, April 13, 1733; educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he made a lengthened tour on the Continent. In 1754 he entered Parliament for Banbury, which he represented almost thirty years; and entered the cabinet under Pitt, in 1759, as commissioner of the treasury. He warmly supported the Stamp Act (1764-65) and the right of Parliament to tax the colonies. In 1766 he was appoieturned to office, after a brief absence, as joint secretary Lord North. of state in the famous coalition ministry, and at the close of that brief-lived administration he retired from public life. In 1790 he succeeded to the title of Earl of Guilford. It is said that, in his old age, Lord North often became low-spirited on account of his having yielded his conscience to the will of the King, and remaining in the administration after he became satisfied that the war was unjust, and that peac
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
.June 22, 1781 First newspaper in Vermont, the Vermont Gazette, or Green Mountain Postboy, printed at Westminster by Judah Paddock Spooner and Timothy Green......1781 Congress resolves that an indispensable preliminary to the admission of Vermont as a State should be the relinquishing of territory east of the Connecticut and west of the present New York State line, Aug. 20, 1781; the legislature dissolves its eastern and western unions......Feb. 22, 1782 Residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assume jurisdiction over Windham county......April 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
n heated to a cherry-red, and passed under the planishing-hammer three sheets at a time. The following are condensed descriptions of United States patents for modes of making sheet-iron similar to the Russian: No. 2,813, Wood, 10, 12, 1842. Rolled in usual manner, but left thicker; oxide removed by acid; cleaned and dried; coated with linseed-oil; two such plates placed between two others; the pack heated to a cherry-red and rolled repeatedly till the gloss is obtained. No. 2,824, Guilford, 22, 10, 1842 Scale removed by acid; washed and dried; subjected to mutual friction in a box with lid and stampers; heated to blue color; passed, while hot, through hardened and polished rolls. No. 8,048, Wood, 15, 4, 1851. Similar to No. 2,813, but the pack is rolled between shield-plates. The latter eventually become inside plates, being scaled, oiled, heated, and rolled as the others. Smoothed and glazed by cold rolling between shield-plates. No. 9,075, McCarty, 26, 6, 1852. Pl
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 2: school days in Hartford, 1824-1832. (search)
ll have young society here all the time, which she cannot have at home, and I think cheerful and amusing friends will do much for her. I can do better in preparing her to teach drawing than any one else, for I best know what is needed. It was evidently necessary that something should be done to restore Harriet to a more tranquil and healthful frame of mind; consequently in the spring of 1827, accompanied by her friend Georgiana May, she went to visit her grandmother Foote at Nut Plains, Guilford. Miss May refers to this visit in a letter to Mrs. Foote, in January of the following winter. Hartford, January 4, 1828. Dear Mrs. Foote:-- . . I very often think of you and the happy hours I passed at your house last spring. It seems as if it were but yesterday: now, while I am writing, I can see your pleasant house and the familiar objects around you as distinctly as the day I left them. Harriet and I are very much the same girls we were then. I do not believe we have altered ver
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28. (search)
judges at the Old Bailey, where he spoke at the call of the Lord Mayor. Following the plan of his journey, he observed with the keenest interest men, society, courts, and parliament. Having been invited to many country-seats, he was well provided with facilities for visiting different parts of England, as also of Scotland and Ireland. He left London, July 24, to attend, by invitation of the judges, the circuits, and to visit places of interest on the way. His route was from London to Guilford, where Lord Denman was holding the Home Circuit, Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, and Bodmin in Cornwall, where the Western Circuit was then in session, and where, with Wilde and Follett, he was the guest of the bar; then to Plymouth in the carriage of Crowder, Queen's counsel, afterwards judge; to Combe Florey, where he was for two days the guest of Sydney Smith; to Wells, where he met the Western Circuit again, Bristol and Cheltenham; to Chester, where Mr. Justice Vaughan, then holding cour
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. Letters. To George S. Hillard, Boston. Liverpool, Aug. 12, 1838. My dear Hillard,—Yours of June 26 and various dates greeted my arrival in this place after a most delightful ramble in the South and West of England,—first to Guilford, where I met Lord Denman and the Home Circuit, and dined with his Lordship and all the bar; then to Winchester and Salisbury, stopping to view those glories of England, the cathedrals. Old Sarum, and Stonehenge,—that mighty unintelligible relic of the savage Titans of whom history has said nothing; then to Exeter, and down even to Bodmin in Cornwall, where the Assizes of the Western Circuit were held. Serjeant Wilde and Sir William Follett were there, having gone down special, not being regularly of the circuit; and we three formed the guests of the bar. Our healths were drunk, and I was called upon to make a reply, which I did on the spur of
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
p of, 228, 229 and note, 232; Cathedral of, 229. Grant, Mrs., Anne, of Laggan, 274, 278 and note, 279. Grassi, Padre, 193 note. Graves, Doctor, 420, 421. Gray, Francis Calley, 31, 318 and note, 328, 871. Gray, Thomas, 285. Gregoire, Count, Bishop, 130, 143. Grey, Earl, 295, 408. Grey, Sir, George, 411. Griffiths, Professor, 419. Griscom, Professor, 298. Grisi, Giulia, 407, 413, 436. Grote, George, 415. Guadiana River, 222 and note, 242. Guaiaqui, Count, 217, 218. Guilford, Lord, 175. Guizot, Francois, 256, 314. H Haase, 482. Haileybury. See Mackintosh. Hale, Nathan, 12. Hallam, Henry, 58. Halle, visits, 110. Hamilton, Alexander, Talleyrand's opinion of, 261; Washington's letter to, 261 note. Hamilton, Lady, 211. Hamilton, Professor, Sir William Rowan, 420, 422, 423, 425 and note. Hamilton, Sir, George, 501. Hand, Professor, 115. Hanover, N. H., 3 note, 4, 5, 6, 334, 385 and note; Elisha Ticknor dies there, 2, 335. Hanover, visits,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Gregoire, Count, Bishop, I. 130, 143. Gregorovius, Ferd., II. 344. Gregory, Mr., II. 164. Grenville, Mr., Thomas, II. 177. Grey, Earl, I. 295, 408. Grey, Sir, George, I. 411. Griffiths, Professor, I. 419. Grillparzer, Franz, II. 8. Griscom, Professor, I. 298. Grisi, Giulia, I. 407, 413, 436. Grote, George, I. 415. II. 367, 369. Guadiana River, I. 222 and note, 242. Guaiaqui, Count, I. 217, 218. Guild, Mr. and Mrs. B., II. 229. Guild, Samuel Eliot, II. 226. Guilford, Lord, I. 175. Guillemard, II. 182. Guizot, Francois, I. 256, 314, II. 104, 109, 119, 120, 126, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 and note, 140, 143, 192, 293, 355. H Haase, I. 482. Hale, Nathan, I. 12. Hall, Capt., Basil, II. 8 and note, 13. Hallam, Henry, I. 58, II. 144, 145, 146, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 176, 178, 190, 326, 361; letter from, 258. Halle, visits, I. 110. Hamborough, Mr. and Mrs., II. 377. Hamilton, Alexander, I. 261 and note, II. 113. Hamilto
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