(Encyclopedia) San Juan HillSan Juan Hillsăn wän, Span. sän hwän [key], Oriente prov., E Cuba, near the city of Santiago de Cuba. It was the scene (July, 1898) of a battle in the Spanish-American War…
(Encyclopedia) Smoky Hill River, c.560 mi (900 km) long, rising on the Great Plains, E Colo., and flowing E across Kansas to join the Republican River and form the Kansas River at Junction City. The…
(Encyclopedia) Hill, Benjamin Harvey, 1823–82, American statesman, b. Jasper co., Ga. A highly successful lawyer and Whig politician, he supported the Whig-Democratic alliance that carried Georgia in…
(Encyclopedia) Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1821–89, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. York District, S.C. He served in the Mexican War but resigned from the army in 1849. He was professor of…
Celebrating the Battle of Bunker Hill by Liz Olson Bunker Hill Day, a holiday observed annually on June 17 in Massachusetts, celebrates the Battle of Bunker Hill. Although named for…
(Encyclopedia) North College Hill, city (1990 pop. 11,002), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; inc. as a city 1940. It is mostly residential. The Clovernook Center for the Blind there has…
(Encyclopedia) Hill, David Bennett, 1843–1910, American politician, b. Montour Falls, N.Y. He entered law and politics, becoming the upstate boss of the Democratic party in New York. He served as…
(Encyclopedia) Bunker Hill, battle of, in the American Revolution, June 17, 1775. Detachments of colonial militia under Artemas Ward, Nathanael Greene, John Stark, and Israel Putnam laid siege to…
