A history of Vancouver Barracks (later Fort Vancouver), the Indian wars, the San Juan Islands boundary dispute, and the death of Gen. Canby. The manuscript also contains copies of letters from Dr. William C. McKay, Ranald Macdonald, Gen. C. C. Augur's...
Description:
General Thomas Anderson, was colonel of the 14th Infantry and in command at Vancouver Barracks for many years.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Oregon, and San Juan Islands (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. and Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, History, and Boundaries
Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
V.2 has title: Bucaniers of America. The second volume. Containing The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the original journal o...
Publisher:
Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar
Subject (Geographic):
Spanish Main. and West Indies
Subject (Name):
Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688., L'Olonnais, 1630-1671., and Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682.
Papers include correspondence and other materials relating to the peace efforts in the mid to late 1960s of the World Constitutional Convention and the World Man Center, a proposed peace center in Cyprus, established in collaboration with Cyprus Presi...
Description:
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970), poet and publisher.
Subject (Geographic):
Cyprus
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970., Fuller, R. Buckminster 1895-1983. (Richard Buckminster),, Makarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977., World Academy of Art and Science., World Constitutional Convention Inc., and World Man Center, Inc.
Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reas...
Description:
In Latin and English.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
