1730 The Natchez Indians extirpated by the French. 1736 The Chickasaw Indians defeat the French. 1740 General Oglethorp, with 2,000 men, makes an unsuccessful expedition against St. Augustine. 1741 Expedition against Cuba. 1742 Spanish expedition against Georgia-failed. 1745 Louisburg and Cape Breton taken by the New England troops, aided by a British squadron, June 17. 1746 French expedition under Duke D'Anville, which threatened New England, failed, by means of storms, sickness in the fleet, &c. 1747 Saratoga village destroyed, the inhabitants massacred by the French and Indians. 1753 The French erect forts on the back of the colonies. 1754 Colonel Washington, with 400 men, in fort Necessity, surrendered to the French, July 4. 1755 Expedition against Nova Scotia; the French are subdued, the inhabitants brought away and dispersed among the colonies. General Braddock defeated by the French and Indians, July 9. Battle of Lake George; the French under Baron Dieskau defeated, Dieskau wounded, Sept. 8. 1756 Oswego taken by the French under Montcalm. 1757 Fort William Henry capitulated to the French, many of the garrison massacred by the Indians. 1758 Louisburg taken by the British, July. Gen. Abercrombie defeated at Ticonderoga with great loss; 1758 Fort Frontenac taken from the French by Col. Bradstreet. Fort du Quesne abandoned by the French and taken by the English and named Pittsburgh, Nov. 25. 1759 Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken by Gen. Amherst. Niagara taken by the English, Gen. Prideaux killed. English repulsed at Montmorency, near Quebec. Battle of Quebec; Gen. Wolf, the English commander, and Montcalm, the French commander, killed; the French defeated and Quebec taken, September. 1760 M. de Levi attempts to recover Quebec; he is compelled to retire. Montreal capitulated to the English, September, and Canada is subdued. The Cherokees take fort Loudon, and treacherously massacre the garrison. 1761 The Cherokees defeated by Col. Grant and compelled to make peace. 1762 Havanna taken by the British and provincials. 1763 Treaty of peace signed at Paris between Great Britain and France; Canada, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton confirmed to the British king. 1768 Two British regiments stationed at Boston, September. 1770 Massacre in Boston; the British troops fired upon the inhab itants, and killed three and wounded five, March 5. 1773 Tea thrown overboard at Boston, Dec. 16. 1775 Battle of Lexington, which began the revolutionary war, April 19. Ticonderoga taken by Col. Ethan Allen, May 10. George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American army, June 15; took command of the troops investing Boston, July 2. 16 775 Genera.s Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne, with a re-enforcement from England, arrived at Boston, May 25. Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17. General Montgomery penetrated into Canada, took fort Col. Ethan Allen captured near Montreal, and sent in irons to Col. Arnold, with 3,000 men, penetrates through the wilderness Assault upon Quebec: General Montgomery killed and the 1776 Norfolk, Va., burnt by the British, January 1. Boston evacuated by the British, March 17. Loyalists defeated in North Carolina by Gen. Moore, Feb. 27. A body of the Americans at the Cedars surrendered, May. The British defeated in their attack on Sullivan's Island, General Howe and Admiral Lord Howe, with 24,000 men. arrive Declaration of Independence, July 4. Battle on Long Island, August 27. American army withdrawn from Long Island, Aug. 30. Captain Nathan Hale, of Connecticut, executed as a spy. New York evacuated by the Americans, taken possession of by the British, Sept. 15. Gen. Arnold defeated on Lake Champlain, Oct. 12. Battle at the White Plains, Oct. 28. Fort Washington taken, with about 2,000 prisoners, Nov. 16. Americans attack Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, but are repul American army retreated through New Jersey, and crossed the Gen. Lee surprised and taken prisoner, Dec. 13. 77 Battle of Princeton, Gen. Mercer killed, Jan. 3. Washington retires to Morristown. More than 20,000 stands of arms and 1000 barrels of powder arrived from France. Danbury, Con., burnt, Gen. Wooster killed, April 28. Col. Meigs crosses over to Long Island from Connecticut, and captures 90 of the British without the loss of a man, May 23. Gez. Prescott surprised and taken prisoner by Col. Barton, of Rhode Island. Battle of Brandywine, Gen. Lafayette wounded, Sept. 11. Gen. Wayne surprised and defeated with the loss of about 300 men, Sept. 28. The British take possession of Philadelphia, Sept. 27. Ticonderoga evacuated by the Americans, July 6. Battle of Benington, August. Battle of Germantown, Oct. 4. Burgoyne encamps at Saratoga, Sept. 14. Gen. Burgoyne surrendered to Gen. Gates, Oct. 17. 777 Assault on Red Bank; British defeated; Count Donop killed. 778 Treaty of Alliance with France, signed Feb. 6. The British evacuate Philadelphia, June 18. Battle of Monmouth; many soldiers died of the heat, June 28. Battle on Rhode Island, Aug. 29; Americans retreat from Rhoda Paul Jones' naval battle on the coast of Scotland, Sept. 22. Expedition of the Americans against East Florida, failed. Savannah taken by the British under Col. Campbell, Dec. 29. The American frigate Randolph, of 36 guns, and 300 men, blown up in an engagement; only four men saved. 1779 Gen. Ash surprised and defeated by the British at Brier Creek, with the loss of 300 men, March 3. Engagement at Stono Ferry; Americans obliged to retreat, Unsuccessful assault on Savannah; Count Pulaski, a Polish The British make incursions into Virginia; property to an immense amount destroyed. The British plunder New Jersey, June. Gov. Tryon invades and plunders New Haven, July 5; Fairfield and Norwalk burnt. Stony Point taken by General Wayne, July 15. The Americans made an unsuccessful attempt against the British post at Penobscot. Gen. Sullivan ravages the country of the Six Nations. 780 Gen. Lincoln capitulated, and Charleston, S. C. surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton, May 12. Col. Buford defeated at the Wexhaws by the British under Col. Tarleton: the Americans lost about 300 men, in killed, wound. ed, and prisoners, May 28. Col. Sumpter defeats a party of British at Williamson's plantation, July 12; and a body of Tories at Hanging Rock, August 6. Gen. Rochambeau arrives at Newport, R. I. with a French Battle of Camden; the Americans under Gen. Gates, defeated Gen. Sumpter surprised and defeated by Col. Tarleton, Au- Treason of Arnold; Major Andre taken and executed, Oct. 2. Action at King's Mountain; the British and Tories, under Major Ferguson, defeated with the loss of 150 killed and 800 prisoners, October 7. Incursion of the British Gen. Kniphausen, into New Jersey; action near Springfield, N. J. June 23. 781 Mutiny in the Pennsylvania line of troops, Jan. 1. General Green takes command of the Southern American army. Battle of the Cowpens; Gen. Morgan and Col. Tarleton, Janu ary 17. Battle of Guilford, N. C. between Gen. Greene and Lord Corn wallis, March 15. 781 Gen. Marion takes fort Watson, April 23. Fort Cornwallis at Augusta, taken June 6. Gen. Greene lays siege to Ninety-Six, but is repulsed, June 18. The combined armies under Gen. Washington, decamp from the Hudson, and march for Virginia, August 19. New London, Con. burnt, fort Griswold stormed and the garrison put to the sword by Arnold, September 8. Battle of the Eutaw Springs; Gen. Greene defeats the British, with the loss of 1000 men, Sept. 8. Lord Cornwallis pursues the Marquis de la Fayette, in Virginia. Yorktown invested, and batteries opened against it, Oct. 9. 1782 The British evacuated Savannah, July. Provisional articles of peace signed, Independence of the United 1783 Definitive treaty signed, Sept. 3. The army disbanded, Oct. 18. Farewell address of Gen. Washington to the army, Nov. 2. General Washington resigned his commission, Dec. 23. 1790 Gen. Harmer defeated by the Indians in Ohio. 1791 Gen. St. Clair defeated by the Indians. 1794 Gen. Wayne gains a decisive victory over the Indians on the Miami, August 20. 1797 Collision with the French republic. 1798 Gen. Washington appointed to command the armies of the United States, July 7. 1799 Capt. Truxtun, in the Constellation, took the French frigate Insurgent, Feb. 10. 1800 Treaty of Peace with France, September 30. 1803 War with Tripoli. 1804 Com. Preble makes an ineffectual attack on Tripoli. 1805 Gen. Eaton takes possession of Derne, a Tripolitan city, and a peace with Tripoli soon after ensues. 1807 The American frigate Chesapeake fired into by the British frigate Leopard, off the Capes of Virginia, 4 men killed and 16 wounded, June 22. 1809 Non-intercourse with Great Britain and France, established by congress, March 1. 1811 Engagement between the American frigate President, Captain Rogers, and the British sloop of war, Little Belt, Capt. Bingham, May. Battle of Tippacanoe, between Gen. Harrison and the Indians, 812 Declaration of War by the United States against Great Britain, June 18. General Hull surrendered his army, and the fort of Detroit, to U. S. frigate Constitution, Capt. Hull, captured the British frigate 400 men, women, and children, massacred at Fort Mimms, on U. S. frigate United States, Cóm. Decatur, captured the Mace donian, October 25. Battle of Queenstown. U. C. Gen. Brock killed, Oct. 3. 812 U. S. frigate Constitution, Com. Bainbridge, captured the Java, Dec. 29. 1818 Bloody action at the river Raisin, between the Americans under Gen. Winchester, and the British and Indians under Gen. Proctor; Gen. Winchester killed, and the American prisoners massacred by the Indians, Jan. 22. U. S. sloop of war Hornet, Captain Lawrence, captured the U. S. frigate Chesapeake, Capt. Lawrence, captured by the Bri- Gallant defence of fort Stephenson, by Major Croghan, August 1. The American fleet on Lake Erie, under Com. Perry, capture the British fleet under Com. Barclay, Sept. 10. Gen. Harrison defeats the British and Indians under Gen. Proctor; Tecumseh killed, Oct. 5. Detroit fell into the hands of the Americans. 1813-14 War with the Creek Indians: March, 26, 1814, Gen. Jackson obtains a decisive victory over the Creeks; upwards of 500 warriors slain at the Great Bend of the Tallapoosa. 1814 U. S. frigate Essex, Capt. Porter, captured by a superior force, March 28. Fort Erie taken by the Americans, July. Battle of Chippewa, July 6. Battle of Niagara, July 25. Washington captured and burnt by the British under Gen. Ross, Attack on Baltimore; Gen. Ross killed, Sept. 12. Unsuccessful attack by the British, under Gen. Drummond, on fort Erie, Aug. 14. Castine taken by the British, Sept. 1. Com. Macdonough captures the British fleet on Lake Cham plain; retreat of Gen. Provost from Plattsburgh, Sept. 11. 1815 Memorable victory of General Jackson over the British before New Orleans, Jan. 8. Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, Massacre of American prisoners at Dartmoor, Eng. April 6. 1818 War with the Seminole Indians. 1823 Commodore Porter sent against the pirates in the West Indies, 1832 War with the Winnebagoes and other tribes. "Black Hawk," a famous Indian chief, captured, Aug. 27. REMARKABLE EVENTS. 1587 Virginia Dare born-the first child of Christian parents born in the United States. 1508 John Laydon married to Ann Burras,-the first Christian mar riage in Virginia, and in the United States. |