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leiy, 1802-03, when he resigned his commission. He was secretary of legation at the court of Lisbon, Portugal, through the request of Thomas Sumter, U. S. minister, 1809-11. He re-entered the U.S. army in 1813 as colonel of the 2d artil- lery, and was made a brigadier-general in 1813 and major-general in 1814. He commanded the Department of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Del- aware in 1812 ; the 3d military district, with New York as headquarters, 1813 ; a brigade under Gen, Wade Hampton at Chateaugay river. Lake Champlain, N.Y., in October, 1813, and in the retreat of Hampton's army was commended for the skill with which he handled his brigade. On May 4, 1814, he took command of the Division of the Right, with headquarters at Plattsburg, N. Y. He had in August about 7000 raw recruits, which he drilled and had under so good discipline as to make the place safe against the British army of 30,000 men under Prevost, all regulars and veterans of European wars. He was ordered to Sacket Harbor and Niagara with 4000 of his men and marched them 400 miles over bad roads and joined Gen. Jacob Brown. With their combined forces they crossed the Niagara river and found General Drummond entrenched behind the Chip- pewa. He offered battle on the plain, which was declined, and fearing the approach of winter and being weak in artilleiy, he declined to attack the entrenched army. After destroying Fort Erie, he evacuated the peninsula and his action was approved by the war department and by the President, while Generals Armstrong and Inger- soll criticised his military judgment. He re- signed from the army in 1815, and on March 4, 1825, President Adams appointed him governor of Arkansas Territory, which office he held till his death. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society in 1807. He was married to Elizabeth Carter, daughter of James Parke Farley, of " Antigua," Va., and widow, first of John Banister, of Virginia, and secondly of Thomas Lee Shippen, of Philadelphia. He is the author of : Official Correspondence ivith the War Department, 1814-15 (1816). He died in Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 22, 1828.

IZARD, Ralph, statesman, was born at " The Elms," near Charleston, S.C., in 1742; son of Henry and Margaret (Johnson) Izard ; grandson of Ralph and Magdalene Elizabeth (Chastaigner) Izard and of Governor Robert Johnson, of South Carolina, and great-grandson of Ralph Izard, who came to America from England during the reign of Queen Anne, and was the founder of the South Carolina branch of the family; and also great- grandson of Governor Sir Nathaniel Johnson. Ralph Izard was early sent to England and placed at school at Hackney, finishing his edu- cation at Christ college, Cambridge. Returning

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to America, he took possession of his estate in South Carolina, but spent much of his time in New York, where he met his future wife, Alice, daughter of Peter De Lancey, of Westchester, N.Y., and niece of James De Lancey, lieutenant - governor of the province. He was married in 1767, and in 1771 returned to England and resid- ed in London. At the outbreak of the Rev- olutionary war he made several at- tempts to intercede with the king in be- half of the colonists, but without success. In 1777 he removed with his family to

France, and soon after was appointed by con- gress commissioner to the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Considering it inexpedient to proceed to the court of Tuscany, he con- tinued his residence in Paris, where he support- ed Arthur Lee in opposition to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Deane. When Commodore Gillon was sent from South Carolina to Europe to purchase frigates, and for that purpose to obtain a loan, he could not effect the object on the security of the state government alone. Mr. Izard then pledged his whole estate, and the vessels were secured. Through alleged misrepresentations, the Continental congress, in 1779, passed resolu- tions to recall Mr. Izard, and he returned to the United States in July, 1780. and reported at Washington's headquarters. He influenced Wash- ington to send General Greene to take command of the southern army, for which service he re- ceived the thanks of the governor of South Caro- lina. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continental congress, 1782-83, and U.S. sen- ator, 1789-95. He was president pro tempore of the senate from May 31, 1794, to Feb. 20, 1795, serving in the first and second sessions of the 3d congress. He was a founder of the College of Charleston and a trustee of that institution, 1791-1804. Of his children, George (q.v.) be- came governor of Arkansas Territory ; Ralph \%as a lieutenant in the U.S. navy, and served with distinction in the war with Tripoli ; and Henry was married to Emma, daughter of Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. See Correspondence of Mr. Ealjjh Izard, of South Carolina, from the Year 1774 to 1804, itnth a Short Memoir (1844), by his daugh- ter, Anne Izard Deas. He died at South Bay, near Charleston, S.C, May 30, 1804.