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Show THIS HATH IX IIIMTOHV-APKIL SB. 1605 Death of Torquato Tusuo, ,RSjK Italian poet: born 1.T44. (&K A 1509 Oliver Cromwell, prolee- Jsgif' tor, born; died 105S. 1668 Triple alliance of England IT di and the Netherlands against TjS France. drT&fSi 1785 Death of Samuel Wesley, Jy4Uk. poet ; born Iflft tJS 1709 Birth of Brunei, famous ' '"i;" engineerof Thames tunnel, England; died IK 19. MAKsn bi.d lovell 17S1 Petersburg, Va., captured by British. 1781 Battle of Camden, S. 0. Americans de featcd. 1P00-Death of William Cowper, poet; born 1781 1818 -United States laud office established. 181 The Texans capture and parole seven companies com-panies of the Third U. S. Infantry. IMSLand and naval attack on Fort Macon, N. C. 1802 Admiral Farragut demands surrender of New Orleans. Gen. Mansfield Lovell raftisnd, and, marching out with his troops (2,81)0), turns the city over to the civil authorities. Fifteen million dollars removed from the banks, 15,000 bales of cotton destroyed and twelve or fifteen vessels burned by the Confederate Con-federate authorities. 1E85 Emma, queen dowager of the Sandwich Islands, dies, aged 00. |