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See also:WILKINSON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1757–1825) , See also:American soldier and adventurer, was See also:born in See also:Calvert See also:county, See also:Maryland, in 1757. At the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence See also:ate abandoned the study of See also:medicine to enter the American 6rmy, and he served with See also:General See also:Benedict See also:Arnold in the See also:Quebec See also:campaign and was later under General Horatio See also:Gates, acting from May 1777 to See also:March 1778 as See also:adjutant-general of the See also:Northern See also:Department. He was sent to See also:Congress to See also:report Gates's success against See also:Burgoyne, but his tardiness secured for him a sarcastic reception. Gates recommended him for a brigadier-general's See also:commission for services which another actually performed, and succeeded in gaining it, but their friendship was broken by the collapse of the See also:Conway See also:Cabal against See also:Washington in which both were implicated and about which Wilkinson had indiscreetly blabbed. Wilkinson then resigned (March 1778) his newly-acquired commission, but later re-entered the service in the quartermaster-
general's department, and was See also:clothier-general from See also:July 1779 to March 1781.
in See also:common with many other See also:army See also:officers Wilkinson now turned toward the See also:West, and in 1784 settled near the Falls of the See also:Ohio (See also:Louisville), where he speedily became a prominent See also:merchant and See also:farmer and a See also:man of considerable See also:influence. He began to take an active See also:part in the See also:movement for See also:separate See also:state-See also:hood for See also:Kentucky, and in 1787 he entered into an irregular commercial agreement with the See also:Spanish officials of See also:Louisiana. At this 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, as his own papers in the Spanish archives show, he took an See also:oath of See also:allegiance to See also:Spain and began to intrigue with his See also:fellow-Kentuckians to detach the western settlements from the See also:Union and bring them under the influence of the Louisiana authorities. His commercial connections at 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 enabled him to hold out the lure of a ready See also:market at that See also:port for Kentucky products, and this added greatly to the strength of the separatist movement. He neutralized the intrigues of certain See also:British agents who were then working in Kentucky. For these various services he received until 1800 a substantial See also:pension from the Spanish authorities, being officially known in their See also:correspondence as " Number Thirteen." At the same time he worked actively against the Spanish authorities, especially through See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Nolan. Wilkinson's ventures were not as lucrative as he hoped for, and in See also:October 1791 he was given a lieut.-See also:colonel's commission in the See also:regular army, possibly, as a contemporary suggested, to keep him out of See also:mischief. During this See also:year he took an active part in the See also:minor See also:campaigns which preceded General See also:Arthur St Clair's disastrous defeat by the See also:Indians. As brigadier-general (from March 1792) and second in command, he served under General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne in the latter's successful campaign of 1794 against the Indians, and in this campaign he seems to have tried to arouse discontent against his See also:superior among the Kentucky troops, and to have intrigued to supplant him upon the reduction of the army. Upon Wayne's See also:death in 1796, Wilkinson became general in command of the regular army, retaining his See also:rank as brigadier and likewise his Spanish pension. He seems to have tried to stir up both the Indians and the Spaniards to prevent the survey of the See also:southern boundary of the See also:United States in 1797 and 1798, and succeeded in delaying See also:Commissioner See also:Andrew Ellicott for several months in this import-See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant task. At the same time his protege, the filibusterer, Philip Nolan, was engaged in a See also:reconnaissance for him west of the See also:Mississippi. In 1803 Wilkinson was one of the commissioners to receive Louisiana from See also:France, and in 18os became See also:governor of that portion of the See also:Purchase above the 33rd parallel, with headquarters at 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. In his See also:double capacity as governor of the Territory and commanding officer of the army, reasonably certain of his hold on See also:Jefferson, and favourably situated upon the frontier remote from the centre of See also:government, he attempted to realize his ambition to conquer the Mexican provinces of Spain. For this purpose in 180; he entered into some sort of agreement with See also:Aaron See also:Burr, and in 18o6 sent Z. M. See also:Pike to explore the most favourable route for the See also:conquest of the See also:south-west. Before his See also:agent returned, however, he had betrayed his colleague's plans to Jefferson, formed the Neutral Ground Agreement with the Spanish See also:commander of the See also:Texas frontier, placed New Orleans under See also:martial See also:law, and apprehended Burr and ome of his alleged accomplices. In the ensuing trial at Richmr~d the prisoners were released for lack of sufficient See also:evidence to convict, and Wilkinson himself emerged with a much damaged reputation. He was then subjected to a See also:series of courts-martial and congressional investigations, but succeeded so well in hiding traces of his duplicity that in 1812 he resumed his military command at New Orleans, and in 1813 was promoted See also:major-general and took See also:possession of See also:Mobile. Later in this year he made a most miserable fiasco of the campaign against See also:Montreal, and this finally brought his military career to a dishonourable end. For a time he lived upon his See also:plantation near New Orleans, but later appeared in See also:Mexico ('ity as an applicant for a See also:land 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, incidentally acting as agent for the American See also:Bible Society. Here on the 28th of See also:December 1825 he succumbed to the combined effects of See also:climate and of See also:opium.
See Wilkinson's See also:Memoirs of My Own Time (See also:Philadelphia, 1816) ; untrustworthy and to be used with caution; W. R. Shepherd, " Wilkinson and the Beginning of the Spanish See also:Conspiracy " in American See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. ix. (New See also:York, 19o4). (I. J.
End of Article: WILKINSON, JAMES (1757–1825)
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