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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, and Oklahoma) with the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Guam, Wake, Samoa, and Isle of Pines, etc. e District, and various possessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Guam, Wake, and Samoan exclusive of the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, Wake, and Samoan Islands. The governvid Porter, while cruising, lands a force at Porto Rico and exacts an apology for an insult to the Ace signed......July 24, 1899 Hurricane at Porto Rico, many hundreds of lives lost......Aug. 8, 1800 Charles N. Allen appointed governor of Porto Rico......April 12, 1900 The Senate refuses se. P. Morgan & Company......April 29, 1901 Porto Rico tariff law declared constitutional......May . Hunt chosen successor to Governor Allen of Porto Rico......July 23, 1901 Porto Rico adopts resoPorto Rico adopts resolution providing for free-trade with the United States on the anniversary of the American occupation901 William H. Hunt appointed governor of Porto Rico......Aug. 30, 1901 President McKinley vis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
ting the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. Georgia and Alabama bound it on the north. Area, 59,268 square miles in forty-five counties. Population, 1890, 391,422; 1900, 528,542. Capital, Tallahassee. Juan Ponce de Leon, sailing from Porto Rico in search of new lands, discovers Florida, March 27; lands near St. Augustine, plants the cross, and takes possession in the name of the Spanish monarch......April 2, 1512 Diego Miruelo, a pilot, sails from Cuba with one vessel, touches at Florida, and obtains pieces of gold from the natives......1516 Spaniards, under Francis Hernandez de Cordova, land in Florida, but are driven off by the natives and return to Cuba......1517 Ponce de Leon, having returned to Porto Rico and obtained title and privileges of Adelantado of Florida, fits out two vessels and revisits Florida. Driven off by the natives, he soon after dies in Cuba......1521 Panfilo de Narvaez, commissioned to conquer and govern the mainland from the river of Pal
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
er, the Rough Riders, and 3d United States Cavalry land at Montauk Point......Aug. 15, 1898 Imposing naval parade in New York of Admiral Sampson's victorious Santiago fleet......Aug. 20, 1898 James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, first citizen of Brooklyn, born 1808, dies at Saratoga, N. Y.......Sept. 3, 1898 Admiral Cervera, Spanish naval officer, whose fleet was destroyed by Admiral Sampson, July 3, arrives in New York......Sept. 8, 1898 Forty-seventh Regiment of New York ordered to Porto Rico for garrison duty......Oct. 3, 1898 Abraham Oakey Hall, lawyer, born 1826, dies at New York City......Oct. 7, 1898 Justice Wilmot M. Smith decides that the creation of the County of Nassau was constitutional......Oct. 11, 1898 Battle-ships Oregon and Iowa sail from New York for Manila......Oct. 12, 1898 George Edwin Waring, sanitary engineer, born 1833, dies at New York City......Oct. 29, 1898 Chauncey M. Depew, Republican, elected United States Senator from New York to succ
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vieque (search)
Vieque An island 13 miles east of Porto Rico; 21 miles long and 6 miles wide. Its land is very fertile and adapted to the cultivation of almost all the fruits and vegetables that grow in the West Indies. Cattle are raised and sugar cultivated. The town, Isabel Segunda, is on the north, and the port is unsafe in times of northerly wind, like all the anchorages on that side; the few ports on the south are better, the best being Punta Arenas. Not long ago there were two importing and exporting houses on the island of Vieque, but on account of the long period of drought and the high duties on foreignimported goods trade has decreased to local consumption only. All supplies are brought from San Juan, the majority being of American origin. The climate is fine and may be considered healthy; there have never been any contagious diseases. The district contains Culebra Island, Mosquito and Llave, Pueblo and Florida, Porto Real Abajo, Porto Real Arriba. Punta Arenas, Porto Ferro, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whipple, Henry Benjamin 1823- (search)
d theology; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1849; held charges in Rome, N. Y., and Chicago, Ill., till 1859, when he was elected the first bishop of Minnesota. He declined the bishopric of the Hawaiian Islands; established a free church system in Chicago; was a stanch friend of the Indians; was active in the work for the elevation of the negroes in the South; and founded three institutions of learning in Faribault, Minn., the Seabury Divinity School, the Shattuck School for boys, and St. Mary's Hall for girls. He conducted the first Episcopal service held in Havana, Cuba, in 1871; preached the memorial sermon at the unveiling of the Tennyson Memorial on the Isle of Wight, in 1897; represented the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States at the Centenary Church Missionary Society of England, London, in 1899; and after the close of the American-Spanish War spent some months in Porto Rico in the interest of his Church. He died in Faribault, Minn., Sept. 16, 1901.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, Trumbull 1868- (search)
White, Trumbull 1868- Journalist; born in Winterset, Ia., Aug. 12, 1868; received a collegiate education; was engaged in journalism, principally on Chicago daily papers, in 1889-94; travelled in Europe and Mexico in 1894-96; accompanied the Cuban and Porto Rico expeditions in charge of the Chicago Record's news service; visited Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia in 1897-98 for the same paper; and later was its correspondent in Russia. He is the author of Wizard of Wall Street; Free silver in Mexico (with William E. Curtis); Our War with Spain; Our New possessions; Through darkest America, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, Henry Howard 1866- (search)
Whitney, Henry Howard 1866- Military officer; born in Glen Hope, Pa., Dec. 25, 1866; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1892 and was assigned to the 4th Artillery as first lieutenant. In 1898, under the guise of an English sailor, he made a military reconnoissance of Porto Rico and gained information which General Miles made the basis of his campaign against that island. He was captain and assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Miles during the war with Spain; was afterwards promoted lieutenant-colonel and became aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Miles.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James Harrison (search)
Alabama River and Chattahoochee. In the course of thirty days he had marched, skirmished, and destroyed along a line of 650 miles in extent, not once hearing of Wilson. He joined Wilson at Macon, Ga. (April 30), where the great raid ended. It had been useful in keeping Forrest and others from assisting the defenders of Mobile. During the raid Wilson's troops captured five fortified cities, 288 cannon, twenty-three colors, and 6,82 prisoners; and they destroyed a vast amount of public property of the Confederates of every kind. They lost 725 men, of whom ninety were killed. On May 10, 1865, he crowned his military achievements by capturing Jefferson Davis (q. v.). He had been brevetted major-general, United States army, in the preceding March. After retiring from the army he was engaged in civil engineering till May, 1898, when he was commissioned a major-general of volunteers for the war with Spain. In the Porto Rico campaign he commanded the 1st Division of the 1st Army Corps.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
er Narraganset wrecked in collision near Cornfield Point shoal, Long Island Sound; twenty-seven lives lost......June 11, 1880 American steamer Seawanhaka burned off Ward's Island, N. Y.; twenty-four lives lost......June 28, 1880 American steamer San Salvador lost at sea while making a trip from Honduras to Cuba; twenty-nine lives lost......August, 1880 Steamer City of Vera Cruz founders off Florida coast; sixty-eight lives lost......Aug. 29, 1880 Steamer Bahama founders between Porto Rico and New York; twenty lives lost......Feb. 4, 1882 Thirty-five wrecks during a storm off Newfoundland......about Dec. 19, 1882 Six American schooners founder off St. George's bank; seventy-six lives lost......November, 1883 American steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head light, Mass.; ninety-nine lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884 Belgian White Cross line steamship Daniel Steinman struck on rock off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131 lives lost......April 3, 1884
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