General William Hull

(noun)

William Hull (June 24, 1753 – November 29, 1825) was an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution, was Governor of Michigan Territory, and was a general in the War of 1812, for which he is best remembered for surrendering Fort Detroit to the British.

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Examples of General William Hull in the following topics:

  • The British Strategy

    • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
    • By August, Hull and his troops, numbering 2,500 with the addition of 500 Canadians, retreated to Detroit, where they surrendered to a force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native Americans led by British Major General Isaac Brock and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
    • On October 13, United States forces were again defeated at the Battle of Queenston Heights, where General Brock was killed.
    • The early disasters were brought about chiefly by American unpreparedness, and a lack of leadership drove United States Secretary of War William Eustis from office.
    • They were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.

  • The War in the North

    • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
    • Hull's army was too weak in artillery, however, and by August, Hull and his troops retreated to Detroit.
    • Secretary of War William Eustis from office.
    • The British also were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat toward Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
    • This 1865 painting by William H.

  • The Social Problem

    • This shift in the bargaining balance between resource owners and laborers would raise the general level of wages and ensure no one need suffer involuntary poverty.
    • This new concept justified the stratification of the wealthy and poor and coined the term "survival of the fittest. " Joining Spencer was Yale University professor William Graham Sumner, whose book What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (which was first published in 1884) argued that assistance to the poor actually weakens their ability to survive in society.
    • Followers of the new Awakening promoted the idea of the Social Gospel ,which gave rise to organizations such as the YMCA, the American branch of the Salvation Army, and settlement houses such as Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.

  • Social Justice

    • Historians debate the exact contours of the "Progressive Era", but this term generally refers to the period from the 1890s to the period after World War I.
    • Many educational reforms and innovations generated during this period continued to influence debates and initiatives in American education for the remainder of the twentieth century.
    • For example, Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by professionalized social workers and volunteers and located in inner city slums.
    • In Dynamic Sociology (1883), Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, while Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) attacked the "conspicuous consumption" of the wealthy.
    • In general, it targeted privilege, unfair wealth gaps, poverty, irresponsible administration, and all forms of social and political corruption, which Progressives believed were retarding the expansion and growth of a more egalitarian, democratic nation.

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • In parts of the Lower East Side, buildings were older and had courtyards, which were generally occupied by machine shops, stables, and other businesses.
    • The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years.
    • Hull House became, at its inception in 1889, "a community of university women" whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people (many of them recent European immigrants) in the surrounding neighborhood.
    • The "residents" (volunteers at Hull were given this title) held classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities (such as sewing), and many other subjects.
    • Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.

  • Progressivism and Religion

    • With Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago as its center, the settlement house movement and the vocation of social work were deeply influenced by the Social Gospel.
    • Presbyterian William Boardman promoted the idea of holiness through his evangelistic campaigns and through his book The Higher Christian Life, which was published in 1858.

  • Pennsylvania and Delaware

    • William Penn founded the Pennsylvania Colony in 1681 and brought over Quaker dissidents from England, Wales, the Netherlands, and France.
    • The colonial government, established in 1682 by Penn's Frame of Government, consisted of an appointed governor, the proprietor, a Provincial Council, and a larger General Assembly.
    • William Penn had asked for and later received the lands of Delaware from the Duke of York.
    • Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenni Lenape.
    • William Penn, holding paper, standing and facing King Charles II, in the King's breakfast chamber at Whitehall.

  • The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

    • The Populist Party backed the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election.
    • Based among poor, white, cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), it represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, railroads, and elites generally.
    • It sometimes formed coalitions with labor unions, and in 1896 the Democrats endorsed their presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan.
    • William Jennings Bryan had an innate oratory talent.

  • The Lost Generation

    • In a more general sense the term identified the generation that came of age during and shortly after World War I, leading to the name, "the World War I Generation."
    • Celebrated modernists also include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.
    • You are a lost generation."
    • The “Lost Generation” was greatly influenced by the First World War.
    • Eliot was an important figure among the "Lost Generation" movement of writers.

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

    • Lincoln urged Major General Ulysses S.
    • He replaced Major General Don Carlos Buell with Major General William S.
    • On November 5, seeing that his replacement of Buell had not stimulated Major General George B.
    • On December 13, the "grand division" of Major General William B.
    • Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Major Generals Edwin V.