The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . r,started, in partnership with Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell,the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachu-setts. He declined a nomination to the Massachusettsassembly, and later the nomination to the state sen-ate. He was engaged in making translations fromSchiller, Goethe and the historical works of Bancroft was a Democrat, and Van Buren madehim collector of the port of Boston in 1838. In 1842he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor, buton the election of Polk to the Presidency, was madeSecreta
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . r,started, in partnership with Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell,the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachu-setts. He declined a nomination to the Massachusettsassembly, and later the nomination to the state sen-ate. He was engaged in making translations fromSchiller, Goethe and the historical works of Bancroft was a Democrat, and Van Buren madehim collector of the port of Boston in 1838. In 1842he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor, buton the election of Polk to the Presidency, was madeSecretary of the Navy. It was through his officialinfluence that the Annapolis Naval .-Vcademy wasestablished. He issued the famous orders to takepossession of California in the event of war withMexico, and (whiie acting as Secretary of War/rt?/(•w.) he ordered CJeneral Taylor to cross the NuecesRiver into the disputed Texan territory and thusbegin the Mexican War. In 1846 he was sent asminister to the court of St. Jamess; in 1S67, to Prus-sia; in 1868, to the North German Confederation;. 342 BANCROFT —BAND-FISH in 1871, to the new German Empire, whence hewas recalled three years later, at his own participated in the settlement of the Northwest-ern boundary dispute, and in the treaty concerningexpatriation rights with Germany, which providedthat citizens of either country naturalized in theother should, after five years residence, be acceptedas citizens of the state thus chosen. Great Britainafterwards subscribed to this treaty. Mr. Bancroftsgreatest work was that of the historian. In 1834he began the publication of his History of the UnitedStates. It opens with the discovery of America byColumbus, and chronicles events down to the closeof the Revolutionary War and the formation of theconstitution. It is very authentic, but is not broadlyphilosophical, yet it received the highest commen-dation from such scholars as Prescott, EdwardEverett, Von Raumer, Baron Bunsen and G
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