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See also:NIAGARA, FORT , an See also:American fortification, on the E. See also:side and at the mouth of Niagara See also:river, opposite the See also:Canadian See also:village
of Niagara, or Niagara-on-the-See also:Lake. Fort Niagara has a reser- See also:Queen See also:Victoria, extends along the See also:bank of the river for 22 M. vation of 288 acres, with fairly See also:modern equipments, several
historic buildings of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:French and of See also:British See also:possession, in one of which, the old See also:magazine (1757), See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Morgan was imprisoned in 1826. Fort Niagara was See also:long, especially during the French occupation of See also:Canada, one of the most important forts in See also:North See also:America, being the See also:key to the See also:Great Lakes, beyond Lake See also:Ontario. " This immense extent of inland See also:navigation," says See also:Parkman, " was safe in the hands of See also:France so long as she
held Niagara. Niagara lost not only the lakes but also the valley of the See also:Ohio was lost with it." Rene See also:Robert Cavelier,
Sieur de La Salle, wintered here in 1678-9, built his See also:ship the "Griffon," and established a trading See also:post and Fort See also:Conti, destroyed not long afterwards. Fort Denonville, built in 1687 by Jacques Rene de Bresay, See also:marquis de Denonville, See also:governor-See also:general of Canada, in his cruel See also:campaign against the See also:Iroquois, was abandoned in 1688, after the See also:garrison, commanded by See also:Pierre de See also:Troyes (d. 1687), had been wiped out by an epidemic. The first Fort Niagara, to be so named, was built in 1725-1727 at the instance of See also:Charles le Moyne, 1st See also:baron of Longueil (1656-1729), and
became a very important military and trading post; the fort was rebuilt by See also:Francois Pouchot (1712-1769) in 1756, but in See also:July
1759, after a See also:siege of about sixteen days, it was surrendered to See also:Sir William See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson by Pouchot, who wrote a Memoir upon the See also:Late See also:War (translated and edited by F. B. Hough; 2 vols., 1866). On the 14th of See also:September 1763 a British force marching from Fort See also:Schlosser (about 2 in. above the Falls; built 1750) to Fort Niagara was ambushed by See also:Indians, who threw most of their captives into See also:Devil's Hole, along the Niagara river. In July 1764 a treaty with the Indians was signed here, which detached some of them from See also:Pontiac's See also:conspiracy. See also:Joseph See also:Brant, See also:John See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler, and, in general, the Indians of north-western New See also:York favouring the British during the American War of See also:Independence, made Fort Niagara their headquarters, whence they ravaged the frontier, and many See also:loyalists and Indians took See also:refuge here at the time of General See also:Sullivan's expedition into western New York in 1779. The fort was not surrendered to the See also:United States until See also:August 1796. In the War of 1812 it was bombarded by the guns of Fort See also:George (immediately across the river in the See also:town now called Niagara, then See also:Newark 1) on the 13th and 14th of See also:October 1812; was the starting-point of the American expedition which took Fort George on the 27th of May 1813; and on the 19th of See also:December 1813 was surprised and taken by See also:assault—most of the garrison being killed or taken prisoners—by British troops under John See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray (1774--1862), who had previously retaken Fort George. After the See also:close of the war, on the 27th of See also:March 1815, Fort Niagara was restored to the United States, and a garrison was kept there until 1826. The fort was regarrisoned about 1836. :'.
See F. H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (See also:Buffalo, 1903), Parkman's See also:works, especially Montcalm and See also:Wolfe (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1884), and The Conspiracy of Pontiac (2 vols., Boston, 1851), and a pamphlet by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter A. See also:Porter, A Brief See also:History of Old Fort Niagara (Niagara Falls, 1896).
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