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of. By the fights of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapultepec Scott’s forces approached closer and closer to the capital. Asa sequel of the last-named fight, he was in po e ion of two of the gates on the evening of September 13, 1847. Next morn. | ing, the officials of the republic having fled, the authorities of the city | surrendered unconditionally. Scott made a triumphal entry into the | city, unopposed by any organized resistance. | Miantonomo, sachem of the Narragansett Indians, died in 1643. |. He concluded an alliance with Ma achusetts in 1636 and aided in the | Pequot War. He deeded the present site of Providence to Roger | Williams. | Michigan, a State of the American Union, was formed from the | Northwest Territory. It was first explored and settled by the French. | Marquette in 1668 established a mi ion at Sault Ste. Marie. In 1701 Detroit was founded. In 1763 the French surrendered their claims to the English, who in 1783 surrendered it to the United States, although actual po e ion was not given until 1796. In 1787 Michigan was included in the Northwest Territory, which was organized by the ordinance of that year. In 1805 it was created a separate territory. During the War of 1812 the inhabitants suffered from the English. A boundary dispute with Ohio was settled in favor of that State by the Act of Congre of 1836, which provided for the admi ion of Michigan. The inhabitants accepted the conditions, and Michigan became a State January 26, 1837. Except in the year 1840 the State was Democratic until 1856, since which time it has been Republican in Presidential elections. The ‘‘ Maine Liquor Law ’’ was pa ed in 1855 and repealed in 1875. In 1840 Michigan had a population of 212,267, in 1900, 2,420,982. The present Constitution was made in 1850, Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor. Its founding is due to grants of land made by Congre . First opened to students 1842. It was the first State university to attain high distinction. Its school of medicine was established in 1850, its law school in 1859, its school of homeopathy in 1875. Middle brook, New Jersey. It was at this place the American army went into winter quarters 1778-9, and suffered great hardships. The soldiers were neither paid nor fed, and but for General Washington’s personal influence the army would have mutinied. Middle ton, Arthur (1742-1787), aided in framing the South Caro-~ lin a Constitution in 1776. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congre from 1776 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence. He served during the Revolutionary War, and was a member of the Continental Congre from 1781 to 1783. He was author of several influential political e ays signed ‘‘ Andrew Marvell,’’ YOUN Midnight Appointments, official appointments of sixteen circuit judges and other inferior officers made by John Adams during the last three weeks of his Presidential term, many of the papers being signed ' just before midnight of March 3, 1801. These appointments were made in a spirit of pique at Jefferson's succe , and the officers chosen were in every instance Federalists, bitterly opposed to Jefferson’s principles, ‘. Mifflin, Thomas (1744-1800), had served in the Pennsylvania Legislature before he entered the first Continental Congre . In the war he was at first aide-de-camp to Washington, and then quarter-: master-general. He covered the retreat of the army in the evacuation of Brooklyn in 1776, and soon afterward was appointed major-general and a member of the Board of War. With Conway and Gates he was a ociated in the intrigues against Washington, and in 1778 he was retired from the office of quartermaster-general. He was president of Congre in 1783, member of the Federal Convention of 1787, and a signer of the Constitution. He was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1790 to 1799. - Mifflin, Fort. Fort Mifflin, on an island in the Delaware and, with Fort Mercer, commanding the stream, was captured by the British in the latter part of November, 1777. Milan Decree, a decree i ued by Napoleon December 7, 1807, in which he declared to be “‘ denationalized,’? whether found in Continental ports or on the high seas, any ve el which should submit to search by a British ve el, or should touch or set sail for or from Great Britain or her colonies. This was in retort to the British Orders-in-Council of November 11, 1807, which declared, among their provisions, any ve el and cargo good prize if it carried a French consular certificate of the origin of the cargo. Mileage. The First Congre provided that each member should receive, beside his pay, six dollars for each twenty miles traveled in going and returning. In 1818 this was raised to eight dollars. An act of 1856 limited this to two se ions. In 1866, the railroad having long since come in, the mileage was reduced to twenty cents a mile. Miles, Nelson A., born in 1839, distinguished himself at Fair Oaks and Malvern, commanded a brigade at the Wilderne , Spottsylvania and Fred ericks burg. He was afterwards succe ful in the Western Indian campaigns, for which he was promoted in 1890 to be major-gerieral, and in September, 1895, corznmander-in-chief of U. S. army. He personally commanded the Porto Rican expedition, 1898. His criticisms of the conduct of the Spanish-American War, although not borne out by the commi ions investigating them, received much popular support. 455