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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Thomas 1715-1794 (search)
boundaries of Kentucky. He was commissary-general under Washington in General Braddock's army, and was present at the latter's defeat. In 1775 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served on the second committee of safety; in 1777 was appointed with his son, Col. John Walker, to visit the Indians in Pittsburg, Pa., for the purpose of gaining their friendship for the Americans; and in 1778 was made president of the commission to settle the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. Walker Mountains in southwestern Virginia were named after him. He died in Albemarle county, Va., Nov. 9, 1794. His son, John, legislator; born in Albemarle county, Va., Feb. 13, 1744, was an aide to Washington during the Revolutionary War, and was by him recommended to Patrick Henry on Feb. 24, 1777, for ability, honor, and prudence. He succeeded William Grayson in the United States Senate, where he served in May- December, 1790. He died in Orange county, Va., Dec. 2, 1809.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
ody was now inferior in its material to the first and second Congresses, and was burdened with cliques and factions; and there were protests among the members, who shook their heads in disapprobation of the popularity and power with which Washington was invested. To a proposition to give him power to name generals, John Adams vehemently protested, saying: In private life I am willing to respect and look up to him; in this House I feel myself to be the superior of General Washington. On Feb. 24, 1777, when mere ideal reinforcements were voted to Washington, after an earnest debate, in which some of the New England delegates and one from New Jersey showed a willingness to insult him, they expressed an earnest desire that he would not only curb and confine the enemy within their present quarters, but, by the divine blessing, totally subdue them before they could be Washington's headquarters at Morristown, N. J. reinforced. To this seeming irony Washington calmly responded: What hop
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
d of England, escaped absorption by Spain, seemed necessarily about to become an ally of the British king. Its harbors, during the last year of the ministry of Pombal, were shut against the vessels of the United States; and congress, on the thirtieth of 1776. Dec. 30. December, 1776, resenting the insult, was willing to incur its enmity, as the price of the active friendship of Spain. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 40-44. But when, two months later, on the 1777. Feb. 24. twenty-fourth of February, 1777, the weak-minded, superstitious Maria the First succeeded to the throne, Pombal retired before reactionary imbecility. Portugal, in exchange for a tract of land conterminous to Brazil, withdrew from the La Plata, and was scarcely heard of again during the war. In the south-east of Europe, the chief political 1778. interest for the United States centred in the joint rulers of the Austrian empire. The Danube, first of rivers of the old world, rolled through their dominions be
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
ady proved to him that the colonies were become a nation. He supported the rights of neutrals in their fullest extent; and, when England began to issue letters of marque, he stigmatized privateers as pirates of the sea. Frederic to Goltz, 24 Feb., 1777. But, as to a direct commerce, he could only answer as before: I am without a navy; having no armed ships to protect trade, the direct commerce could be conducted only under the flag of the Netherlands, and England respects that flag no longed the ministry sought to open the way for it through his envoy in London. Frederic, in his replies, made the most frank avowal of his policy: No man is further removed than myself from having connections with England. Frederic to Maltzan, 24 Feb., 1777. We will remain on the footing on which we now are with her. Ibid., 3 March, 1777. France knows perfectly well that it has absolutely nothing to apprehend from me in case of a war with England. My indifference for this latter power can su