Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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well as Solon Borland, the United Statesminister to Nicaragua, took the captains partand resisted the arrest. The native inhabitantswere indignant and mobbed Borland, where-upon the United States war-vessel Cyane. Com-mander Hollins. was sent to exact reparation.Hollins espoused the cause of an .American tran-sit company who were making excessive claims,and ordered the mayor to pay them at once; ontheir refusal he bombarded and burnt the place.This outrage embroiled the L^nited States withGreat Britain. Gridley. Charles Vernon, .American navalofficer: h. Logansport. Ind.. 24 Nov. 1845: d.Kobe, Japan. 5 June 1898. A gr.aduate (1863)of the United States Naval .Academv. he ser\-edduring the Civil War in the West Gulf block-ading squadron, subsequent to the war was onvarious ships, and in 1875-79 was stationed atthe Naval .Academy. He was navitjation of-ficer in the Boston Navy Yard in 18S2-84. waslichlhou^c inspector in 1R87-91 and 1895-97, in1897 attained the rank of captain and was ap-
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ALBERT HEXRY GEORGE. THE FOURTH EARL GREY, GOVERXOR-GEXERAL OF CAXADA. GRIDLEY —GRIEG pointed to the conmiand of the Olympia, thenflagship of the Asiatic squadron. This vesselhe commanded in the battle of Manila Bay iMay (1898). He died at Kobe. Gridley, Richard, .\merican soldier: b.Boston, Mass., j Jan. 1711; d. Stoughton, Mass.,20 June 1796. He served in the British armyas lieutenant-colonel of engineers under Pep-perell at tlie capture of Louisburg in 1745; aschief engineer and colonel of infantry in 1755;took part in the expedition to Crown Pointunder Winslow in 1756; under Amherst in1758; and under Wolfe at Quebec in 1759. Hewas appointed chief engineer and commanderof the artillery of the American army upon theoutbreak of the Revolution, constructed thefortifications on Breeds Hill before the battleof Bunker Hill, and later fortified DorchesterHeights. He was commissioned major-generalby Congress on 20 Sept. 1775. and commandedthe Continental Artillerj- till November of thatj

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