IZARD
IZARD
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.
