New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-13
Him saas asiv Crescent Saturday zpniug sagus b. 1859.
Anniversary Events-August ~.

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a. - ia ~ hove Ian 400 600 in specie, besides
800. titles of valuable real estate
i 500 esrthouake devastated the greater part
- syria. Il began about half past nine in the eve
n;rg and n Ten or twelve seconds, Aeppo, Antioch,
.nd every village and detached cottage in the pasha-
No Of Aleppo and several towns in the adjoining ter
ritories were entirely ruined There were 1000 peo
ple destroyed BY it, and as many more manned or
wounded.
lsl9-Just after brilliant meteor mass of
eeatinous and very fetd matter fell at Amherst Mass
lsl7-John Beale, aged 81, q member of the Soci-
ety Of Friends died at his residence in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in the same house in which he was
born, having never resided in any other.
lsl2-The British sloop-ofwar Alert attacked the
United States Frigate Essex, Captain Porter. and
after an action Of eight minutes struck her colors
with seven feet of water in her hold, much cut to
pieces and three men wounded. The Alert had been
sent out to capture the Hornet, and mounted 10 h.
carronades, and had 100 men.
1s0s-The French in the night raised the siege Of
Saragossa, in Spain. It had been most nobly de-
Tended since July I'd, by General Palafox and the
Countess de Burita, who raised company of ladies'
that exposed themselves to the greatest personal dan
gers and fatigues.
1906 Miranda abandoned his conquests on the
Spanish Main, and sailed to Aruba.
l794-Battle Of Bellegarde, between the French
and Spanish The action was severe one; both
claimed the victory.
l77s-The Languedoc of 90 guns, Count d Estang's
flag ship, having lost her rudder and masts in the
storm Of the day BEFORE was attacked by the British
ship Renown, so guns, which was beaten of. At the
same time British ship Of so guns attacked another
Of Esaings ships, Of so guns having only her main
mast standing, but was also beat off.
1775 NJ washington informed Congress that the
whole stock OF powder in New England amounted to
no more than 1927 pounds, about rounds to man.
Although this information was communicated to the
British by deserer they could not believe it posi-
BILE that the Americans possessed such consummate
assurance as to continue to invest them in Boston,
while 80 destitute Of ammunition.
l762-Cuba surrendered to the British. The booty
was great f3 100000 in SPECIE large quantities of
goods and munitions Of war; ships of the line and
frigates It was exchanged into the hands Of the
| Spanish again the next year for the Flordas.
a ~
of SO ships Of the line and several frgates Admiral
Rookie and Cloudesley Shovel, and the French fleet
of 81 ships and ~ gaeys. The action continued all
day, and at night the French bore off. No vessels
were taken by either.
| l667-Jeremy Taylor died; an eminent English
theological writer and controversialst.
| 1660-A proclamation was issued by Charles II
against duelling.
1 1e36-De yries, who had been two years on the
| coast Of America. with q view to settling colony
entered on his diary this day. that be requested Wou
/ ter Van Twiller to put Staten Island down to his
i name. intending to form colony there which was
done, and two days after he sailed on his return te
Holland.
i l5s7-Manteo, a friendly Indian, who had been tt
4 ENGLAND was baptjzed according to a previous order
of Sir Walter Raleigh, and in reward of his faithful
service TO the EngltS1, was LOIQ Oh hOauUkt
/ and Desamonguepuk.
Il 1871 ortez retook the CITY of Mexico, assisted BY
10 600 Tlascalans and an innumerable host of Other
Indian allies from the neighboring nations, whom hi
had attached to his service. It was not, however
till after seyeptyye DAYS Of fierce and almost dali,
4 fighting that he accomplished his victory On NJ
occasion did native Americans so bravely oppose Eu
ropean troops but the superior discipline of thu
Standards carried the day and thus daring adyen
tnrer. regarded and treated by his countrymen as
rebel after bloody struggle, gained possession of
country which for more than three centuries formed
i ono of the briphtest gems in the Castilian crown
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