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| North America:The U. S. Canadian border is established at the 49th parallel between the Lake of the Woods, Minnesota and the Rocky Mountains. The land on the West coast is occupied by both nations for ten years. Illinois beconmes the 21st state. Florida becomes a U. S. Territory and Spain also cedes western lands north of the 42nd parallel. Cincinnati is famous for packing pork in barrels of brine. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Allied troops leave France after three years. First blood transfusion. Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, KeatsBeethoven | |||||||||||
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| Hammond, Louisiana in Tangipahoa Parish is founded by Peter Hammond (1798-1870). | The first steamboat comes into the Monroe area. Soon after, Trenton (West Monroe) becomes the most important cotton shipping center on the Ouachita River. It was incorporated in 1870. It lost its importance soon after the railroad bridge across the river at Monroe went into service in 1882. | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard is born on
Contreras Plantation in
St. Bernard Parish in 1818. He graduates second in his class at the
U. S. Military Academy at West Point and is stationed in Louisiana with
the Corp. of Engineers. He fought in the Mexican War and is involved in
the construction of the Customs House in New Orleans. He marries Marie Laure Villere in 1841 and lost her to childbirth in 1850. On January 23, 1861 he is appointed superintendent of the Military Academy. A few days later his brother-in-law Senator John Slidell makes an impassioned secession speech and Beauregard is obliged to relinquish his command, making his the shortest tenure as superintendent at West Point. On February second he resigned from the U. S. Army. He distinguished himself on the battlefield and in business after the Civil War. |
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