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Show THIS DATE Iff HISTOKY-SEP'T 15 1760 Austrians defeated atLelir- nitz by Frederick the Great. 1770 New York city abandoned by the Americans. 1780 Birth of James Fennimore Cooper, American novelist; died Sept. 14, 1651. 1840 Death of Brunei, famous English engineer; born 1760. , 186S Harper's Ferry surren-' dered to the Confederates with 11,588 men; Confcder- coopks. ate casualties 500. 1670-Pletrl, private secretary to the French emperor, em-peror, stated that his master had not a centime cen-time in foreign funds, 1870 Tho estimated loss of the Germans at this time in the war with France was 60,000 killed and wounded, and between twenty and thirty thousand sick; the siege of Paris began this day. 1878 Three communist murderers shot at Satory, France. 1874 Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, deposed bj the whites of New Orleans; restored to power on the 18th. 1885 Jumbo, famous elephant, killed in a railroad accident near SU Thomas, Out. |