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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sigel, Franz 1824- (search)
Sigel, Franz 1824- Military officer; born at Sinsheim. Baden, Nov. 18, 1824; graduated at the military school of Carlsruhe; entered the Baden service, but resigned in 1848, when he became a champion of German unity and republicanism. The revolutionary government appointed him secretary of war. At the head of a beaten and dispirited force, after a defeat by the Prince of Prussia, he made a skilful retreat within the walls of the fortress of Rastadt. Upon the flight of the provisional government, in July, Sigel withdrew to Switzerland, and, being expelled by the Swiss government, he came to New York in 1850, taught mathematics, interested himself in the State militia, became major of a regiment, and in September, 1858, removed to St. Louis and became superintendent of public schools there. When the Civil War broke out he organized a regiment of infantry and a battery, assisted Franz Sigel. Lyon in the capture of Camp Jackson, and afterwards did signal service in southwester
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
lwater Bay......Nov. 18, 1805 Astoria, first American settlement on Pacific coast, established by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company......April 12, 1811 Fort Okanagan, built by David Stuart on the Okanagan, a branch of the Columbia......August, 1811 Pierre Dorion and two others massacred by Indians on the Snake River......January, 1814 Fort Walla Walla, on the Columbia River, built by the Hudson Bay Company......1818 Exploring party under James McMillan leaves Astoria, Nov. 18, 1824; ascends the Chehalis River to Black River, thence to Tumwater Lake; thence by an Indian portage it descends the Eld Inlet to Puget Sound......December, 1824 Convention with Russia at St. Petersburg, April 5-7, 1824, regulating fishing and trading on the Pacific coast, and fixing 54° 40′ as the northern boundary of the United States, ratified......Jan. 12, 1825 Dr. John McLoughlin, of the Hudson Bay Company, moves headquarters from Astoria to Vancouver, which thus becomes first s