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  • Thumbnail for Stephen Van Rensselaer
    politician. A graduate of Harvard College, at age 21, Van Rensselaer took control of Rensselaerswyck, his family's manor. He developed the land by encouraging...
    51 KB (4,978 words) - 07:33, 28 July 2024
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    the army on the Niagara, and he officially took command on 13 July. Van Rensselaer secured the appointment of his second cousin, Colonel Solomon Van Rensselaer...
    50 KB (6,736 words) - 16:58, 5 July 2024
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    Rensselaer /rɛnsəˈlɪər/ is a city in Rensselaer County, New York, United States, and is located on the east side of the Hudson River, opposite Albany...
    41 KB (3,699 words) - 18:37, 2 August 2024
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    William Wadsworth (officer) (category War of 1812 prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom)
    However, Smyth, of the regular US Army, commanding at Buffalo, had issues with taking orders from him. Believing van Rensselaer's hasty maneuver unwise...
    20 KB (2,870 words) - 09:04, 20 July 2023
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    Patriot War (category 1838 in the United States)
    Rensselaer van Rensselaer and 24 rebels proceeded to Navy Island. The encampment was to launch an attack in support of the Duncombe uprising in the London...
    34 KB (4,143 words) - 23:35, 21 March 2024
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    Fort Niagara was expecting a British attack and was demanding more reinforcements. On October 8, 1812, Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer of the New...
    25 KB (2,917 words) - 16:05, 2 June 2024
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    Peter Buell Porter (category Politicians from Niagara Falls, New York)
    Clinton. The Federalists on the Committee were Gouverneur Morris, William North, Thomas Eddy, and Stephen Van Rensselaer. In 1811, Porter and the Democratic-Republicans...
    28 KB (2,985 words) - 14:51, 21 May 2024
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    victory on the second ballot of the contingent election, but Adams won on the first ballot with the help of Clay and Stephen Van Rensselaer, a Congressman...
    140 KB (15,476 words) - 15:54, 3 August 2024
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    Hendrick van Rensselaer, the son of Jeremias van Rensselaer, patroon of Rensselaerswyck. Livingston's maternal great-grandfather, Johannes Pieterse van Brugh...
    12 KB (1,147 words) - 19:41, 27 June 2024
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    Fort Crailo (category Van Rensselaer family)
    was built in 1707. The word Crailo is derived from kraaien bos (Dutch for "crow's woods") and refers to Kiliaen van Rensselaer's estate in Huizen, Holland...
    7 KB (592 words) - 01:51, 18 June 2024
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    associate of Jeremias van Rensselaer, Patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, and attended his funeral. The original Town of Watervliet on the banks of the Hudson...
    20 KB (2,511 words) - 22:54, 28 June 2024
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    Joseph Gilbert Totten (category United States Army personnel of the War of 1812)
    During the War of 1812, he was chief engineer of the Niagara frontier and Lake Champlain armies under General Stephen Van Rensselaer. At the Battle of Queenston...
    11 KB (1,174 words) - 18:46, 24 July 2024
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    Schenectady Counties and the Town of Clifton Park) Yankee Doodle District (Columbia and Rensselaer Counties as well as the communities of Mechanicville and Stillwater)...
    67 KB (6,940 words) - 01:08, 16 July 2024
  • John Chrystie (category United States Army personnel of the War of 1812)
    Solomon Van Rensselaer and other officers. Chrystie was accused of cowardice after the incident. Despite this, he was promoted to colonel the following...
    3 KB (337 words) - 11:32, 9 January 2021
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    received 36,484. In 1813 he defeated Stephen Van Rensselaer – Tompkins received 43,324 votes, Van Rensselaer received 39,718 – and in 1816, he beat Rufus...
    27 KB (2,618 words) - 22:41, 3 August 2024
  • east): the Great Lakes region (the U.S. side of which is also known as the Old Northwest, and the Canadian side as Upper Canada); the Niagara Frontier;...
    75 KB (5,737 words) - 17:11, 30 June 2024
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    American crossing of the Niagara River, and he took overall command of U.S. forces at Queenston after Colonel Solomon Van Rensselaer was badly wounded...
    100 KB (11,669 words) - 15:27, 4 August 2024
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    on 15 August. The fort was subsequently burned. Brock moved to the eastern end of Lake Erie, where American General Stephen Van Rensselaer was attempting...
    220 KB (27,480 words) - 19:46, 3 August 2024
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    burial place of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Niagara Falls National Heritage Area was designated by the U.S. Congress...
    216 KB (20,243 words) - 23:52, 5 August 2024
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    Hall, three courthouses, and the St. George Terminal transportation hub are in the St. George neighborhood. Columbia Rensselaer Chautauqua Cattaraugus Allegany...
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