In August 1831, Juan Davis Bradburn the military commander of the custom station on Upper Galveston Bay gave asylum to two men who had escaped from slavery in Louisiana.

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After the Revolutionary War, American river piracy began to take root, in the mid-1780s, along the upper Mississippi River, between Spanish Upper Louisiana, around St. Louis, down to the confluence of the Ohio River, at Cairo.

The lower Ohio River country was routinely patrolled by the Legion of the United States and U. S. Army troops, garrisoned at Fort Massac, as constabulary against Native Americans, colonial raiders from Spanish Upper Louisiana Territory, and river outlaws in the region.

Events in Louisiana did not receive as much attention in those years in the Upper South and Lowcountry.

The county was officially organized on January 2, 1835, and is named for Amos Stoddard, the first American Civil Commandant of Upper Louisiana.

The seat of government was established in New Orleans, and what is now Missouri became part of Upper Louisiana Territory.

The Spanish District of New Madrid, containing present day Jasper County, was the southern most of the five Spanish districts comprising Upper Louisiana.

Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.

It was located in an area encompassed by the pre-Louisiana Purchase territory known as New France, Illinois Country, or the Upper Louisiana territory.

The Spanish moved the capital of Upper Louisiana from Fort de Chartres fifty miles upriver to St. Louis, Missouri.

Much of the area was once the property of James De St. Vrain, a brother of the last Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana.

The remainder was known as the Upper Louisiana Territory.

On October 1, 1812, Governor Clark organized the five administrative districts of Upper Louisiana Territory into counties, which later became the first five counties of Missouri Territory.

Missouri French was spoken by the descendants of 17th-century French settlers in east central Missouri, then called Haute-Lousiane ( Upper Louisiana ), especially in the area of Ste.

President Thomas Jefferson appointed him Governor of Upper Louisiana in 1806.

General James Wilkinson, appointed Governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory and headquartered there, became his mentor.

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Kaskaskia became the capital of Upper Louisiana and Fort de Chartes was built in 1718.

The area north of present-day Arkansas was commonly referred to as Upper Louisiana.

Under the overall direction of the governor of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, a force from Upper Louisiana attacked Ogoula Tchetoka on March 25, 1736.

In 1840 while he was on one of his missions from the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada the Earl of Durham to the British Minister at Washington he met Marie Christine Waggaman, daughter of George Augustus Waggaman, a former Whig senator from Louisiana.

* Upper Becker Creek Cone, a volcanic cone in the Upper Becker Creek area of Carbon Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

This system is used in the Upper House in India, Australia ( Senate, Tasmanian and Australian Capital Territory Houses of Assembly and the Legislative Councils in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria ), Ireland, Northern Ireland ( assembly, local government and European elections, but not national ), Malta, local government elections in Scotland and selected ( optional ) local governments in New Zealand.

Many other battles were fought in American territory bordering Upper Canada, including the Northwest Territory ( most in modern day Michigan ), upstate New York and naval battles in the Great Lakes.

Although the Creeks had been forced from Georgia, with many Lower Creeks moving to the Indian Territory, there were still about 20, 000 Upper Creeks living in Alabama.

The crop failures of the “ Year without a Summer ” may have helped shape the settling of the " American Heartland ", as many thousands of people ( particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event ) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest ( then the Northwest Territory ) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.

* William H. Clagett ( 1838 – 1901 ), U. S. Congressman from the Montana Territory, born in Upper Marlboro

According to often repeated stories, the Dakota was so named because at the time it was built, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was sparsely inhabited and considered as remote as the Dakota Territory.

The remainder of Wayne County, roughly the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula, was attached to Indiana Territory.

French Sudan was created as a French territory on 9 September 1880, as " Upper Senegal ", and was renamed the " French Sudan Territory " on 18 August 1890, with its capital at Kayes.

In 1800, the western half of the Lower Peninsula and most of the Upper Peninsula was attached to Indiana Territory when it was established as a separate government from the Northwest Territory.

St. Clair County, another Indiana Territory county, was also expanded at this time, to include the western portion of the Upper Peninsula and a small sliver of the Lower Peninsula along the shore of Lake Michigan.

During the War of 1812, following General Isaac Brock's capture of Detroit on August 16, 1812, the Michigan Territory was at least nominally a part of the Province of Upper Canada.

Wisconsin Territory was established in 1836 with the present boundary in the Upper Peninsula.

The lineage including alligators proper ( Alligatorinae ) occur in the fluvial deposits of the age of the Upper Chalk in Europe, where they did not die out until the Pliocene age.

Map of the Freie Ämter, including the 1712 line dividing the Upper and Lower Freie Ämter

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

Violin in tow, Elfman next journeyed to Africa where he traveled through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta, absorbing new musical styles, including the Ghanaian highlife genre which would eventually influence his own music.

During the War of 1812, Great Britain and allied Indians defeated U. S. forces in the Upper Mississippi ; the US abandoned both Fort Osage and Fort Madison, as it did several U. S. forts built during the war, including Fort Johnson and Fort Shelby.

In 336 BC Philip II of Macedon conquered Upper Macedonia, including its northern part and southern Paeonia, which both now lie within the Republic of Macedonia.

Mining accidents continue worldwide, including accidents causing dozens of fatalities at a time, such as the 2007 Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster in Russia, the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United States, and the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in China.

In January 2006 the population of Normandy ( including the part of Perche which lies inside the Orne département but excluding the Channel Islands ) was estimated at 3, 260, 000 with an average population density of 109 inhabitants per km², just under the French national average, but rising to 147 for Upper Normandy.

In addition, the Pacific Ocean served as the crash site of satellites, including Mars 96, Fobos-Grunt and Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite.

Following the third Silesian Uprising ( 1921 ), however, the easternmost portion of Upper Silesia ( including Katowice ), with a majority ethnic Polish population, was awarded to Poland, where it was formed into the Silesian Voivodeship.

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* 1887 – 1888, there were record cold temperatures in the Upper Midwest, heavy snowfalls worldwide, and amazing storms, including the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888 ( in the Midwest in January ), and the Great Blizzard of 1888 ( in the Eastern US and Canada in March ).

* 1883 – 1888, colder temperatures worldwide, including an unbroken string of abnormally cold and brutal winters in the Upper Midwest, related to the explosion of Krakatoa in August 1883.

In the Upper Xingu region was a highly self-organized pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape, including deposits of agricultural terra preta, with a network of polities each of which covered about 250 square kilometers.

Included in the Yarra Valley is the sub-region of Upper Yarra ( or the Upper Yarra Valley ) which encompasses the towns of the former Shire of Upper Yarra in the catchment area upstream of and including Woori Yallock.

It was during this period also that European colonization of the Americas began in earnest, including the exploitation of the fabulously wealthy silver deposits of Potosí in Upper Peru and Mexico which resulted in great bouts of inflation as wealth was drawn into Europe from the rest of the world.

The House of Wittelsbach split into these two branches in 1329: Under the Treaty of Pavia, Emperor Louis IV granted the Palatinate including the Bavarian Upper Palatinate to his brother Duke Rudolf's descendants, Rudolf II, Rupert I and Rupert II.

He began to follow a policy which was more independent from Bohemia, including in respect to friendly relations with his Upper Silesian cousin Duke Władysław of Opole and also with duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland.

Native American relics remain including The Enclosure, an obviously man-made structure that is located about below the summit of Grand Teton at a point near the Upper Saddle ().

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

The latter was able to use this tax and a dynastic marriage to his advantage to gain back full control of Upper Alsace ( apart from the free towns, but including Belfort ) in 1477 when it became part of the demesne of the Habsburg family, who were also rulers of the empire.