Encyclopaedia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, brought down to the present time : including a copious collection of original articles in American biography : on the basis of the seventh edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon (Volume 13).
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![menced, he was appointed major-general, and was even thought of as generahssi- mo. He commanded the troops at Cam- bridge until the arrival of Washington, vv'hen he was placed at the head of the right wing at Roxbury. His firmness and intrepidity were strikingly displayed on various trying occasions. In April, 1776, he resigned his commission, though, at the request of Washington, he contin- ued for some time longer in command. He was afterwards chosen one of the council of Massachusetts, where he was distinguished for his integrity and inde- pendence of spirit. In 1786, he was speaker of the house of representa- tives, and chief justice of the court of common pleas for the county of Worces- ter. On the organization of the general government, he was elected to congress. He died at Shrewsbuiy, Oct. 28,1800, aged seventy-three years, after a long decline. Wareham ; a market-town and bor- ough of England, in Doi-setshire, near the mouth of the Fromc. By the reform act of 1832, it was deprived of one of its members of parliament. Population, 2325. Warendorf, on the Ems; a Prussian town in the government of Minister, and province of Westphalia, with 4200 inhab- itants. Above 16,000 pieces of linen (or 960,000 ells) are woven by the peasants of the environs, in winter, when they cannot work in the fields. Warham, William, an English prelate and statesman of the sixteenth century, was a native of Hampshire, and was edu- cated at Winchester school and Oxford, where he obtained a fellowship in 1475. He subsequently jiractised as an advocate in the court of arches, and, after an em- bassy to IJiu'gundy, was appointed chan- cellor of Wells, and master of the rolls. Henry VII at length raised him to the dignity of lord chancellor; and he suc- cessively became bishof) of London, and archbishop of Canterbury. He was one of the early patrons of Wolsey, whose influence, under Henry VIII, gave um- brage to Warham; and, in 1515, here- signed the great seal, and at length with- drew his attention from affairs of state. He died in 1532. This prelate was an cnrourager of learning, and was the fiiend and patron of the celebrated Erasnuis. Warmbrunn (also called JVurmhad); a watering jjlace in Silesia, a league from Ilirschberg, 1077 feet above the sea, in a romantic situation. It contains 1900 in- habitants. The warm springs are much resorted to for the cure of gout, rheuma- tism, obstructions, cutaneous eruptions, &c. The environs are romantic. Warnefridds. (See Paul the Dea- con.) Warp, in manufactures, is the threads, whether of silk, woollen, hemp, &c., that are extended lengthwise on the weaver's loom, and across which the workman, by n>eans of his shuttle, passes the threads of the woof, to form a cloth, riband, fus- tian, or other stuff. Warp ; a rope or hawser, employed occasionally to remove a ship from one place to another, in a port, road or river. Hence to warp is to change the situation of a ship, by pulling her from one part of a harbor, &c., to some other, by means of warps which are attached to buoys, to other ships, to anchors sunk in the bot- tou), or to certain stations upon the shore, as posts, rings, trees, &c. Warren, sir Peter, an English admi- ral, distinguished for his professional tal- ents and his private virtues, was descend- ed from an ancient family in Ireland, and received an education suitable to the em- ployment for which he was destined. Having entered young into the navy, he gradually rose to the rank of commodore, which he held in 1745, when he was ap- pointed commander of an armament des- tined for the attack of Louisburg, North America, then belonging to the French. He was joined by the fleet of transports from Boston, containing the New Eng- land troops under sir W. Pepperell (q. v.), in Canso bay, on the 25th of April; and the combined forces took possession of Louisburg on the 17th of June. The French considered the loss of this place of so much importance, that, in 1747, they fitted out a powerful fleet for the purpose of retaking it; and, at the same time, another s(]uadron was sent to the East Indies. The views of the French government were rendered abortive by tlie courage and activity of admiral An- son and sir Peter Warren. The latter, who had been made a rear-admiral, with a large fleet, fell in with the French squadron, completely defeated them, and ca})tnred the greater part of their men- of-war. Peace being concluded the suc- ceeding year, he was elected member of parliament for Westminster. He died in 17.52. Warren, Joseph,a major-general in the American anny, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1740. He graduated, in 1759, at Harvard university, where he bore the reputation of great talenls, ac- complishments, courage, generosity and in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136828_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
