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NEW See also:MADRID , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of New Madrid county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., on the right See also:bank of the See also:Mississippi See also:river, about 35 M. S. by W. of See also:Cairo, See also:Ill. Pop. (1900) 1489; (191o) 1882. It is served by the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:South-western railway and by river packets. The city is a See also:shipping point for a See also:rich See also:grain, See also:cotton, livestock and See also:lumber region. Among its manufactures are lumber, staves, and hoops. The See also:municipality owns its See also:water-See also:works. Owing to the encroachments of the Mississippi river, the site of the first permanent See also:settlement of New Madrid is said to See also:lie now about 1 m. from the E. bank of the river, in See also:Kentucky. This settlement was made in 1788, on an elaborately laid out See also:town site, and was named New Madrid by its founder,
See also:Colonel See also:George See also:Morgan (1742-1810),1 who, See also:late in 1787, had received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of a large See also:tract of See also:land on the right bank of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the See also:Ohio, from See also:Don Diego de Gardoqui, See also:Spanish See also:minister to the See also:United States. The tract See also:lay within the See also:province of " See also:Louisiana," and the grant to Morgan was a See also:part of Gardoqui's See also:plan to annex to that province the western See also:American settlements, Morgan being required to establish thereon a large number of emigrants, whom he secured from New See also:Jersey, See also:Canada and elsewhere. See also:Governor Estevan Miro of Louisiana, however, disapproved of the grant, on the ground that it would cause the province to be overrun by Americans; the settlers became restive under the restraints imposed upon them; Morgan himself See also:left; and in See also:December 1811 and See also:January 1812 a See also:series of severe See also:earthquake shocks caused a See also:general See also:emigration. New Madrid was occupied by Confederate troops under General See also:Gideon J. See also:Pillow, on the 28th of See also:July 1861, and after the surrender of Fort See also:Donelson (See also:February 16, 1862) the troops previously at See also:Columbus, forming the Confederate left flank, were withdrawn to New Madrid and See also:Island No. ro (in the Mississippi about to m. S.). There were Confederate batteries on the left bank of the Mississippi opposite Island No. to, and along the same bank from a point opposite New Madrid to Tiptonville, See also:Tennessee. Behind these batteries were Reelfoot See also:Lake and over-flowed lands. See also:Retreat by land was thus virtually impossible. See also:Early in See also:March, See also:Major-General See also:John See also:Pope and See also:Commodore A.H. See also:Foote proceeded against these positions; New Madrid, then in command of General John P. McGown, was evacuated on the 14th; (See also:Admiral) See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Walke (1808-1896), commanding the " Carondelet," ran past the batteries of Island No. to and the See also:shore batteries on the 4th of See also:April, and Lieut.-See also:Commander Egbert See also:Thompson, commanding the " Pittsburgh," on the 7th; meanwhile the Federals under the direction of Colonel See also:Josiah W. See also:Bissell (b. 1818), of the engineer See also:corps, had, with See also:great difficulty, constructed an artificial channel to New Madrid across the See also:peninsula (swamp land) formed by a great See also:loop of the Mississippi; troops were conveyed by transports through this channel below the island, Federal batteries having been established on the right bank of the river; the retreat of the Confederates down stream was effectually blocked; they evacuated the island on April 7th, and on the 8th the See also:garrison and the forces stationed in the shore batteries, a See also:total of about 7000, under General W. W. Mackall (who had succeeded General McGown on the 31st of March) was surrendered at Tiptonville. The island was subsequently washed away, a new one being formed in the vicinity.
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