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Captain Shreve High School. / 32.44806°N 93.71250°W / 32.44806; -93.71250. Captain Shreve High School ( CSHS) is a public high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Opened in the fall of 1967, the school was named for Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who was responsible for clearing the log jam on the Red River, which led to the ...
In April 1815, Captain Henry Miller Shreve was the first person to bring a steamboat, the Enterprise, up the Red River. [citation needed] By 1839 after Captain Henry Miller Shreve broke the Great Raft log jam had been 160 miles long on the river.
1 de nov. de 2023 · Henry Miller Shreve (1785–1851) Henry Miller Shreve was a steamboat captain and inventor who is noted for performing much-needed clearance work on America’s major river systems during the first half of the nineteenth century. This work included using his own specially designed snag boat to clear large obstructions from the Arkansas River ...
En abril de 1815, el capitán Henry Miller Shreve fue la primera persona que llevó un barco de vapor, el Enterprise, río arriba por el río Rojo. Fulton y Livingston, que reivindicaban el derecho exclusivo de navegar en aguas de Luisiana en barco de vapor, demandaron a Shreve en el Tribunal de Distrito de Nueva Orleans.
Command was transferred to Henry Miller Shreve, a Brownsville resident and experienced keelboat captain, who had firsthand knowledge of the hazards to navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. On December 21, 1814, the Enterprise departed Pittsburgh bound for New Orleans with a cargo of "Cannon-balls, Gun-Carriages, Smith's Tools, Boxes of Harness, &c".
On December 21, 1814, Shreve, who had been chosen to command the steamboat "Enterprise" by her owners based in Brownsville, Pa., disembarked Pittsburgh with a load of munitions for Andrew Jackson to defend New Orleans against an invasion of British forces.
Great Raft. Le « Great Raft » est un ensemble d' embâcles naturels d'arbres et de dépôts qui obstruaient les rivières Rouge et Atchafalaya entre 1100 et 1838. De par sa taille, il est unique en Amérique du Nord . Le constructeur de bateaux à vapeur et capitaine Henry Miller Shreve (en) (1785–1851) est à l'origine du retrait du Great ...
