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See also:PIKE, ZEBULON See also:MONTGOMERY (1779-1813) , See also:American explorer and soldier, was See also:born in Lbmberton (now a See also:part of Trenton), New See also:Jersey, on the 5th of See also:January 1779, son of Zebulon Pike (1751-1834), an officer in the American See also:army. He entered his See also:father's See also:company as a See also:cadet about 1794, and became an See also:ensign (or second See also:lieutenant) in 1799 and first lieu-See also:tenant in the same See also:year. On the 9th of See also:August 18o5 he started with twenty men from 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 to explore the See also:head-See also:waters of the See also:Mississippi. At See also:Prairie du Chien he met some Chippewa chiefs and induced them to expel the See also:whisky-traders among them and to make See also:peace with the See also:Sioux; at the Falls of St See also:Anthony (See also:Sept. 23) he bought a See also:tract g m. square at the mouth of the St Croix for a fort; and at Little Falls (in the See also:middle of' See also:October) he built a stockade, where he See also:left seven men. He reached See also:Leech See also:Lake (" Lake La Sang See also:Sue "), which he called " the See also:main source of the Mississippi," on the 1st of See also:February r8o6; went 30 M. farther to See also:Cass Lake (" Red See also:Cedar "); and, after working against See also:British influences among the See also:Indians, turned back, and went down the Mississippi from See also:Dean See also:Creek to St Louis, arriving on the 3oth of See also:April. In IS0 he was
ordered to restore to their homes 50 Osages, redeemed by the See also:United States See also:government from Potawatami, and to explore the See also:country. He started on the 15th of See also:July; and went See also:north along the See also:Missouri and the Osage into the See also:present See also:state of See also:Kansas and probably to the Republican See also:river in the See also:south of the present See also:Nebraska, where on the 29th of See also:September he held a See also:grand See also:council of the Pawnees. Then (See also:early in October), turning nearly south, he marched to the See also:Arkansas river, which he reached on the 14th of October, and up which (after the 28th with only 16 men) he went to the Royal See also:Gorge (Dec. 7), having first seen the See also:mountain called in his See also:honour Pike's See also:Peak on the 23rd of See also:November; and then went north-See also:west, probably up Oil Creek from See also:Canon See also:City. In searching for the Red river he came to the South See also:Platte, marched through South See also:Park, left it by See also:Trout Creek pass, struck over to the Arkansas, which he thought was the Red River for which he was searching, and, going south and south-west, came to the Rio Grande del Norte (about where Alamosa, Conejos See also:county, See also:Colorado, is now) on the 3oth of January 1807. There on the 26th of February he and a small number of his men were taken prisoners by See also:Spanish authorities, who sent him first to See also:Santa Fe, then to See also:Chihuahua to See also:General Salcedo, and by a roundabout way to the American frontier, where he was released on the 1st of July 1807. He was promoted See also:captain (August 18o6), See also:major (May 18o8), lieutenant-See also:colonel (Dec. 1809) and colonel (July 1812). In 18o8 he tried in vain to get an See also:appropriation from See also:Congress for himself and his men. He was military See also:agent in New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans in 1809–1810, was See also:deputy quartermaster-general in April–July 1812, and was in active service in the See also:War of 1812 as See also:adjutant and inspector-general in the See also:campaign against See also:York (now See also:Toronto), See also:Canada, and in the attack on York on the 27th of April 1813 was in immediate command of the troops in See also:action and was killed by a piece of See also:rock which See also:fell on him when the British See also:garrison in its See also:retreat set See also:fire to the See also:magazine.
His See also:Account of an Expedition to the See also:Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of See also:Louisiana . and a Tour through the Interior Parts of New See also:Spain was published at See also:Philadelphia in 181o; was reprinted and rearranged in See also:London in 1811; and was published in a See also:French version in See also:Paris in 1812, and a Dutch version at See also:Amsterdam in 1812-1813. The See also:standard edition with memoir and notes by See also:Elliott Cones was published in three volumes in New York in 1895. Some of Pike's papers taken from him in See also:Mexico are now in the Mexican archives (Seccion de Asuntos Internacionales caxa 1817-1824), and the more important were published by H. E. See also:Bolton in the American See also:Historical See also:Review, (1907-1908), xiii. 798-827. See the See also:sketch by 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 See also:Whiting in vol. v., See also:series 2, of Jared See also:Sparks's Library of American See also:Biography.
End of Article: PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY (1779-1813)
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