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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 3: strategy. (search)
the Duke de Saxe-Teschen, near Mons, whilst that by descending the Meuse upon Namur, with his mass, he would have been able to roll it back upon the North Sea, near Nieuport or Ostend, and to annihilate it entirely, by a battle more fortunate than that of Jemmapes. The campaign of 1793 offers a new example of the influence of a bad direction of operations. The Austrians gained victories, and retook Belgium, because Dumouriez extended unskillfully his front of operations to the gates of Rotterdam. Until then, the Allies were deserving of all eulogies; the desire of reconquering those rich countries justified that enterprise, wisely directed against the extreme right of the great front of Dumouriez. But when they had repulsed the French army under the cannon of Valenciennes; when the latter, disorganized, delivered up to all the ravages of the anarchy which desolated the interior, found itself in no condition to resist, why remain six months before a few places, and leave the comm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gillon, Alexander 1741-1794 (search)
Gillon, Alexander 1741-1794 Naval officer; born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1741; came to America and settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1766. He captured three British cruisers in May, 1777; was promoted commodore in 1778; and captured the Bahama islands in May, 1782, while commander of a large fleet. He died at Gillon's Retreat, on the Congaree River, S. C., Oct. 6, 1794.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
all the world and preach the gospel ; but, unfortunately, they seek more their own comfort and ease than they do the glory of the Redeemer. Of the German Society for the settling in Pennsylvania. The principal participants in this society of ours are the following-named gentlemen: Jacob von De Walle, Dr. John Jacob Schuetz, and Daniel Behagel, all of Franckfort-on-the-Mayne. Gerhard von Mastricht, of Duisburg; Thomas von Wylich, and John Lebrunn, of Wesel. Benjamin Furly, of Rotterdam; Philip Fort, of London. These persons will attend to and care for all letters and papers for our colony, and will also assist and give advice to all such as desire to emigrate, if such applicants be of good moral character and standing, and their motives and intentions for emigrating are honest and good. In Pennsylvania the whole direction and management of the colony has been intrusted to my humble abilities, for the time being; and may the Almighty give me the proper wisdom and st
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Penn, William 1644- (search)
Penn, William 1644- Founder of Pennsylvania; born in London, England, Oct. 14, 1644. His father was Admiral Sir William Penn, of the royal navy, and his mother was an excellent Dutchwoman of Rotterdam. He received very strong religious impressions while he was yet a child. At the age of fifteen years he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, where, through the preaching of Thomas Loe, he became a convert to the doctrine of the Quakers. He, with two or three others, refused to conform to the worship of the Established Church, or to wear the surplice, or gown, of the student. He and his companions even went so far as to strip some of the students of their robes, for which he was expelled from the college. For this offence his father beat him and turned him out of the house. The mother reconciled them, and the youth was sent to France, with the hope that gay society in Paris might redeem him from his almost morbid soberness. It failed to do so, and, on his return, in 1664,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peters, Hugh 1599- (search)
Peters, Hugh 1599- Clergyman; born in Fowey, Cornwall, England, in 1599; was both a clergyman and politician, and after imprisonment for non-conformity he went to Rotterdam, where he preached several years. He came to New England in 1635, succeeded Roger Williams as pastor at Salem, and excommunicated his adherents. In politics and commerce he was equally active. In 1641 he sailed for England, to procure an alteration in the navigation laws, and had several interviews with Charles I. He preached to and commanded a regiment of Parliamentary troops in Ireland in 1649, and afterwards held civil offices. After the restoration he was committed to the Tower, and on Oct. 16, 1660, was beheaded for high treason, as having been concerned in the death of Charles 1. He wrote a work called A good work for a good magistrate, in 1651, in which he recommended burning the historical records in the Tower.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
Hempstead Beach, L. I.; 108 lives lost......Jan. 3, 1837 Steamboat Home, on passage from New York to Charleston, S. C., wrecked in a gale near Ocracoke; about 100 lives lost......Oct. 9, 1837 Steamboat Pulaski, from Savannah to Baltimore, bursts a boiler off coast of North Carolina; of nearly 200 passengers and crew only sixty are saved......June 14, 1838 Steamboat Lexington, New York to Stonington, burned off Eden's Neck, L. I.; 140 lives lost......Jan. 13, 1840 Brig Florence, Rotterdam to New York, wrecked off southeast coast of Newfoundland; fifty lives lost......Aug. 9, 1840 Steamer President, New York to Liverpool, sailed March 11, with 136 persons on board; not heard from after storm of......March 13, 1841 William Browne, of Philadelphia, wrecked by striking ice on her passage from England to America; about seventy lives lost; sixteen passengers who had been received into the long-boat are thrown overboard by the crew to lighten her......April 19, 1841 Steam
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ts removed and dried. The graphite is now ready for the clay. The clay this company employs is known in market as pipeclay, of a bluish-gray color, has great strength, and is very unctuous and fatty when wet. It comes to this country from Rotterdam for the manufacture of crucibles. The clay is separated in water and floated through a series of tubs in the same manner as the graphite, only the finest part being fit for pencils. Like the graphite, it is dried before mixing, in order thae draft-chain. He made shares of cast-iron in 1785. The importation of what is known as the Rotherham plow was the immediate cause of the improvement in plows which dates from the middle of the last century. Whether this name is derived from Rotterdam cannot now be determined The American plow, during the colonial period, was of wood, the mold-board being covered with sheet-iron or plates made by hammering out old horseshoes. Jefferson studied and wrote on the subject, to determine the p
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
onry: d, the high-water level of the sea or bay; and e, the natural bed. The form of the front wall must be adapted to resist the action of the waves, and the embankment must have an internal slope, according to the nature of the materials of which it is composed; for ordinary materials, a base of 1 1/2 to a perpendicular hight of 1 will insure the necessary stability and firmness. A, Plymouth breakwater. B, sea-dike with facing wall and core. C D. inclosure of Zuid Plas, near Rotterdam, Holland. E, polder bank, Holland. F, Havre sea-wall. If the entire embankment be formed of loose stones, with occasional facing only of laid masonry, as in the case of the celebrated breakwater at Plymouth, a form of less steepness must be adopted for the sea-face of the embankment. A, Fig. 4800, is a section of the Plymouth (England) breakwater. The line a a shows the level of high-water spring-tides; b b, low-water spring-tides; c c, original bottom, varying from 40 to 45 feet
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
e more appropriate, as Mr. Ticknor's fine and scholarly career had always been an object of admiration to his young successor; and the manuscript of Longfellow's Inaugural Address as Professor at Bowdoin College, carefully preserved in the library of that institution, suggests Mr. Ticknor so strongly, both in style and handwriting, that it might almost pass for his. In 1835 he sailed for Europe, with his wife, having first arranged for the publication of Outre-Mer. Mrs. Longfellow died at Rotterdam, on November 26 of that year, in childbirth. I have dwelt thus fully on this ante-Cantabrigian life of Longfellow, because it really prepared the way for the other, being essentially an academical life on a small scale and testing the same qualities afterward manifested in a somewhat larger sphere. Longfellow's studies and successes at Brunswick were what secured his transplantation to Cambridge; and even his growing reputation as a poet was extended to the neighborhood of Boston by t
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23: return to his profession.—1840-41.—Age, 29-30. (search)
ind great sources of happiness. I hope they will not forget me. If I ever revisit Germany, I shall hope to see them. Present my kind compliments to your daughter, who used to converse with me most indulgently in German. I trust you will pardon my apparent remissness in not sending you the books you desire. I have had a large packet of books prepared for you for several months, awaiting the opportunity of a ship from Boston to Hamburg. I have at last put my packet on board a ship for Rotterdam, with instructions to a commercial house in the latter place to forward it to you. The ship sailed three days ago. The packet contains a copy of Phillips on Insurance, two volumes; of Bayley on Bills, with notes; of the second edition of Story's Conflict of Laws; also a large collection of brochuresthat I trust will be interesting to you; also a copy of a new work, just published by a friend of mine, on Seamen, which the author sends to you with his compliments. I send two copies of the f
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