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The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Turn out, [6] The Hurries, [7] 1798 Rebellion [8]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen.
Smith, James Morton (1954). "The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 41 (1): 85– 104. doi:10.2307/1898151. JSTOR 1898151. Smith, James Morton (1954). "Background for Repression: America's Half-War with France and the Internal Security Legislation of 1798". Huntington Library Quarterly. 18 ...
The Quasi-War [a] was an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800 between the United States and the French First Republic. It was fought almost entirely at sea, primarily in the Caribbean and off the East Coast of the United States , with minor actions in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea .
Julia Claggett filed a claim valued at $7,322.50 ($186,223 in 2023) with the Southern Claims Commission in 1871. They allowed her only $3,091 ($78,614). She still owed the prior owner Joseph Horner $8063.57 (about $186,223) and she was forced to sell the farm at a loss to Gustavus Richard Brown Horner, her deceased husband's cousin.
This chart shows the number of enslaved Blacks and freedmen in York County from the first U.S. Census in 1790 to just before the Civil War. York County ranked first in enslaved people in ...
The house was erected around 1725 on a 500-acre parcel of land called Temple Farm which also included a dam and grist mill. [3] The land was originally granted to the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Harvey in the 1630s and was known as the York Plantation at this time. Lawrence Smith II later built the Moore House on Temple Farm and the home ...
27 May – Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London.The Prime Minister William Pitt fights a duel against the opposition politician George Tierney; 2 July – the Marine Police Force is formed on the River Thames by magistrate Patrick Colquhoun to prevent pilfering in the Port of London and West India Docks; [2] it is the first organised police force in Britain.
Many of the old brownstone and brick structures that were constructed in New York City in the late 1890s-early 1900s were composed of bricks manufactured by Haverstraw. At one point, in the early 20th century, there were more than forty brick-making factories lining the Hudson River within the village.