2018年5月18日 · Hudson River in e New York state. It rises in the Adirondack Mountains, and flows s to New York Bay, New York City. First explored by Henry Hudson in 1609, it became one of the world's most important waterways. The New York State Barge Canal connects the Hudson with Lake Champlain, the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River.

2018年5月14日 · HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, a group of nineteenth-century painters inspired by the American landscape. In the realm of the arts, nineteenth-century Americans were torn between a conviction that their country was possessed of unique virtues and a belief that they should copy European masters.

2018年6月8日 · HUDSON RIVERHUDSON RIVER. From its Adirondack origin in Lake Tear of the Clouds to its southern terminus in upper New York [1] Bay, the Hudson River, 306 miles in length, drains an area of about 13,370 square miles.

2018年6月27日 · Explores Hudson River. Hudson and his crew reached the coast of Nova Scotia (a province on the east coast of Canada) in July 1609, traveling as far as Chesapeake Bay before turning north to explore Delaware Bay. Continuing north, Hudson and his crew reached Sandy Hook, a peninsula at the entrance to New York Harbor, on September 12, 1609.

2018年5月17日 · The first commercially viable steamboat was designed by Pennsylvania engineer and inventor Robert Fulton (1765 – 1815); the Clermont made its maiden voyage on August 17-22, 1807, when it sailed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in thirty hours, and then returned. The vessel was 133 feet long and had only a seven-foot ...

2018年5月29日 · The American painter and engraver Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) was a prominent figure in the first generation of the Hudson River school of painters. Asher Durand was born on Aug. 21, 1796, in Jefferson Village, N.J., of a French Huguenot family. His first training was with his father, John Durand, a watchmaker.

2018年6月27日 · Red River rebellion, 1869. In 1869 the Hudson's Bay Company sold its territorial rights to the new dominion of Canada. Both parties largely ignored the Métis of the Red River, a French-speaking community of part Indian descent. Led by Louis Riel, they established a provisional government in December 1869.

Howe waited until 15 September before picking Kip's Bay on the east side of Manhattan as the site of his next turning movement; only Howe's failure to move west to the Hudson River allowed the Americans to escape. Howe pushed Washington north into Westchester County by late October, then retired to consolidate his gains.

Bemis Heights, New YorkBEMIS HEIGHTS, NEW YORK. The bluff on the west side of the Hudson River, three miles north of the village of Stillwater, was named for Jotham Bemis, a local farmer and tavern keeper. Source for information on Bemis Heights, New York: Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History dictionary.

The Hudson River School and Western Expansion. Sources. Expansion and Debate. American painting in the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by the artists of the Hudson River School: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Frederick Church, and others who found in the American landscape a distinctly American subject.