EVANS, GEORGE DE LACY. 



EWBANK, THOMAS. 



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RECAPITULATION. 





EVANS, Sir GEORGE DE LAOT, Bart,, G.C.B., 

 :i l>riii>h general and author, born in Mill- 

 town, Ireland, in 1787; died in London, Jan- 

 uary 9, 1870. He entered the army in 1807, 

 aiid was sent to India the same year, and, after 

 taking a part in many severe battles both there 

 and in the Isle of France, returned to Europe 

 in 1810, and joined the British forces in the 

 Peninsula under Wellington. In this new field 

 he added to the laurels ho had won in the 

 East, and was specially mentioned by the com- 

 mander-in-chief in his dispatches to the Gov- 

 ernment, for the valor he displayed at the bat- 

 tles of Vittoria and Toulouse. In 1814 he 

 was ordered on active service to North Amer- 

 ica, to take an important part in the war 

 against the United States. He fought in the 

 battle of Bladensburg, where his horse was 

 killed under him. He was present at the cap- 

 ture of Washington, being the leader of the 

 body of infantry that forced the Congress 

 Hall. He also took part in the attack upon 

 Baltimore, and was severely wounded at the 

 memorable battle of New Orleans, fought in 

 January, 1815, when Jackson inflicted so ter- 

 rible a blow upon his country's invaders. He 

 held the post of Assistant Quartermaster-Gen- 

 eral during this war, and in 1829 published a 

 pamphlet, entitled " Facts relative to the Cap- 

 ture of Washington," with the view of cor- 

 recting several inaccurate statements which 

 had been made by Admiral Cockburn. Ho 

 returned to Europe immediately after the bat- 

 tle of New Orleans, and, having, by the time 

 he reached England, sufficiently recovered 

 from his wounds to be fit for active service, he 

 joined the army in Belgium as aide-de-camp 

 to General Ponsonby, and was engaged at 

 Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, where he had two 

 horses shot under him. In 1835 he was ap- 

 pointed commander of the auxiliary corps of 

 10,000 men raised in England to support the 

 claims of Queen Isabella against the preten- 

 sions of Don Carlos, and which was known as 

 the Foreign Legion. At the head of this force 

 he rendered the most valuable services to tho 

 cause of the Queen, defeating the Carlists in 

 several battles, and capturing a number of 

 their strongholds. He was rewarded for these 

 services with the honorary title of Lieutenant- 

 General of the armies of Spain, and with the 

 Grand Cross of the Orders of St. Ferdinand 

 and Charles III. At the commencement of the 

 Crimean War he was appointed to the com- 

 mand of the Second Division of the English 

 army. He fought in the battle of the Alma 

 with his usual gallantry. In repulsing tho 



Russian attack upon the English lines before 

 Sevastopol, he again distinguished himself; 

 and he left his sick-bed to place himself at the 

 head of his troops on the bloody field of In- 

 kerman, where, although unable to do much, 

 his counsels proved of invaluable service to 

 the English. On his return home he received 

 the thanks of Parliament, and was subsequent- 

 ly appointed to attend the counci' of generals 

 of the allied armies, held at Paris, in 1856, 

 under the presidency of the Emperor Napo- 

 leon. In 1828 Sir De Lacy Evans published a 

 pamphlet under the title of " The Designs of 

 Russia," in which he pointed out the danger 

 to the Western powers of the preponderance 

 of Russia in the East ; and he exerted himself 

 strenuously to promote the alliance between 

 France and England, through which Russia 

 was defeated in the Crimean War. In politics, 

 General Evans claimed to be an advanced 

 Liberal. He was three times returned to the 

 House of Commons, in which he sat for thirty 

 years altogether, retiring finally at the general 

 election in July, 1865. He had been advanced 

 to the rank of general on the retired list in 

 1861. During his military career he served 

 with eight divisions of the army, and was pres- 

 ent at no fewer than fifty great battles in Asia, 

 Europe, and America. 



EWBANK, THOMAS, a distinguished sci- 

 entist and philosopher, born at Barnard Cas- 

 tle, in the county of Durham, England, in 

 1792 ; died in New-York City, September 16, 

 1870. At the age of thirteen years he was ap- 

 prenticed to a tin and coppersmith in his na- 

 tive place. When he was twenty years old he 

 went to London, and succeeded in getting em- 

 ployment there at making cans for preserved 

 meat. By careful economy he saved enough 

 from his wages to purchase a few books, and to 

 them every hour he could spare from his -work 

 was devoted. During the seven years he lived 

 in London he pursued a comprehensive course 

 of scientific study. He had been elected a 

 member of several learned societies, and was 

 on the high road to business prosperity, when, 

 in 1819, he gave up his English prospects, and 

 came to New York. Here he occupied for a 

 short time tho factory at Powles' Hook, which 

 had belonged to Robert Fulton. In 1820 he 

 engaged in the manufacture of lead, tin, and 

 copper tubing, which business he carried on 

 till 1886. From that time he devoted him- 

 self entirely to his favorite pursuit science. 

 His first published work, u A Descriptive and 

 Historical Account of Hydraulic and other 

 Machines for raising Water, both Ancient and 



