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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ori'genes (search)
ol. ii. pars i. edit. Benedictin, vol. iii. ed. Vallars.) Editions Latin Editions The collected works of Origen, more or less complete, have been repeatedly published. The first editions contained the Latin versions only ; they were those of Jac. Merlinus, 4 vols., or more exactly, 4 parts in 2 vols. fol. Paris, 1512-1519. In this edition the editor published an Apologia pro Origenae, which involved him in much trouble, and obliged him to defend himself in a new Apologia, published in A. D. 1522, when his edition was reprinted, as it was again in 1530, and perhaps 1536. The second edition was prepared by Erasmus, who made the versions, and was published after his death by Beatus Rlietianus, fol. Basel. 1536. Panzer (Annales Typ. vol. vii.) gives the version of Erasmus as published in 4 vols. fol. Lyon (Lugdunum), 1536. It was reprinted, with additions, in 1545, 1551, 1557, and 1571. The third and most complete Latin edition was that of Gilbertus Genebrardus, 2 vols. Paris, 1574, r
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of the Petersburg crater. (search)
rater or connecting lines, nor was there a corps commander on the immediate scene of action; the result being that the subordinate commanders attempted to carry out the orders issued prior to the commencement of the action, when the first attack developed the fact that a change of these plans was absolutely necessary. A revised table that has been prepared for publication in the Official records shows the loss of the Ninth Corps to have been 50 officers and 423 men killed, 124 officers and 1522 men wounded, and 79 officers and 1277 men captured or missing = 3475. The total loss at the mine (including Turner's division of the Tenth Corps) was 504 killed, 1881 wounded, and 1413 captured or missing = 3798. General Mahone states that the number of prisoners taken was 1101. The loss in Lee's army is not fully reported. Elliott's brigade lost 677, and that was probably more than half of the casualties on the Confederate side.--editors. The siege of Petersburg--1. Sharp-shooters on t
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Sketch of the principal maritime expeditions. (search)
During these transactions the successors of Mahomet had not misapprehended all the advantages which the dominion of so many fine maritime provinces promised them, which, at the same time causing them to appreciate the importance of the empire of the seas, furnished immense means for arriving at it. At this epoch, artillery and the military art were not less advanced among the Turks than the Europeans. Their grandeur was carried to its height under Solyman I, who besieged and took Rhodes, (1522,) with an armament which has been estimated at a hundred and forty thousand land troops, and which would still be considerable in reducing it by a half. In 1565, Mustapha and the celebrated Dragut made a descent at Malta, where the knights of Rhodes had made a new establishment; they conducted thirty-two thousand Janizaries, with a hundred and forty vessels. It is known how John of Vallette immortalized himself by repulsing him. A more formidable armament, which is estimated at two hundr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bermudas, first English in the. (search)
Bermudas, first English in the. Henry May, an English mariner, returning from a voyage to the West Indies in a French ship, was wrecked (Dec. 17, 1593) on one of the islands. He and his companions in distress remained there five months, when they rigged a small vessel of 18 tons from the material of the ship, put in thirteen live turtles for provisions, sailed to Newfoundland, and thence returned to England. These islands were named in honor of Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard, who was wrecked there in 1522. May was the first Englishman who set foot upon them. See Somers's Islands.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Somers Isles, (search)
Somers Isles, A name given to the Bermudas, in compliment to Sir George Somers, one of the commissioners for Virginia, who was wrecked there in 1609. These islands received their present name in honor of Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard, who was wrecked upon one of them in 1522. In 1614 the islands were settled under a charter given by King James and called Somers Isles. In 1640 a regular government was established there. Sir George Somers was sent there in 1610 by Lord Delaware for provisions; but, by tempests, the ship was driven northward and finally returned to Virginia. Thence he sailed again, and, after boisterous weather and great fatigue, reached the Bermudas, where he died in 1611. On the spot where he died the town of St. George was built. His heart and entrails were buried in Bermuda and his body was sent to England. In 1620 the governor of Bermuda caused a large marble slab to be laid over the portion of his remains buried there, upon which was cut an epitaph, writt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Velasquez, Diego de 1465-1522 (search)
Velasquez, Diego de 1465-1522 Colonist; born in Cuellar, Segovia, Spain, in 1465; served in the conquest of Granada; went to Hispaniola with Columbus in 1493; and was prominent in the wars against the Indians. In 1511, on being commissioned to conquer Cuba, he left Hispaniola with 300 soldiers and landed near the eastern extremity of the island. The unarmed natives were easily conquered, and he found but little resistance except from Cacique Hatuey, fugitive from Hispaniola, whom he captuuraged by the results of this expedition he sent out another in 1518 under Hernando Cortez, who arrived at Vera Cruz and took command. On hearing that Cortez had sent commissioners to Spain to obtain the title to the newly discovered country, Velasquez immediately despatched a force under Panfilo de Narvaez to bring back Cortez as a prisoner. In this attempt Narvaez was defeated by Cortez, and so the effort of Velasquez to secure the Mexican conquest failed. He died in Havana in 1522 or 1523.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Verrazzano, Giovanni da 1508- (search)
Verrazzano, Giovanni da 1508- Navigator; born near Florence, Italy, in 1470; went to France as a navigator as early as 1508. He became a bold corsair, and a terror to the merchant-ships of Spain and Portugal, seizing many vessels. In 1522 he captured the treasure-ship sent by Cortez to Charles V. with the spoils of Mexico, valued at $1,500,000. Verrazzano, according to a letter from the navigator to Francis I., dated July 8, 1524, and published in the collection of voyages by Ramusio in 1556, sailed from France late Giovanni da Verrazzano. in 1523 in the ship Dauphine, under a commission from the King, and touched America first, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, in March, 1524. In that letter he gives an account of his explorations of the North American coast from lat. 34° to 50°, at the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He describes the people at various points, and his topographical descriptions seem to indicate that he entered the bays of Delaware, New York, and Narraganset, and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
o the House of Commons, and both were burnt to the ground,—a grand funeral-pile. The bakers insisted for some years in keeping tally-stick record of loaves purchased by their customers; some of us recollect it. The oldest surviving treatises on mathematics are by the famous Alexandrians, Euclid, about B. C. 300; Ptolemy, A. D. 130; and Diophantus, A. D. 156. Decimal fractions were invented 1482. The first work on arithmetic published in England was by Tonstall, Bishop of London, 1522. The Italians had been in that field many years before. （Architecture.) The crown member of the capital of a column. Ab′a-ka. A fiber from which Manilla-rope is made. Ropes and cables of this material float in sea-water. Aba-mu′rus. A buttress or second wall, built to strengthen another. Abap-tis′ton. （Surgical.) A trepan saw. Abat-jour′. （Building.) A skylight, or aperture for the admission of light. Abat-voix′. A sounding-board over a pulp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
is propelled by a rocket-charge after being fired from a gun. The hinged barbs are secured to the breech-piece in the tube, and the line connected by a looped shank. Harp′si-chord. （Music.) An obsolete stringed instrument resembling a harp laid prostrate, the strings being played by quills operated by keys like those of a piano-forte. Harpoon-rocket. The harpsichord is believed to have been first made by Hans Rucken, in Germany, about 1510. Used in public festivals in Italy, 1522. Improved by Vincentino, 1555. Vertical form invented by Rigoli of Florence, 1620. Pepys, in his Diary (1661), speaks of the harpsichon at Captain Allen's house, where he saw his dear Mrs. Rebecca. The spinet was a similar instrument with one wire for each note, and, like the harpsichord, was played with quills on jacks, operated by keys. The clavicytherium may be considered the original of the whole train of stringed instruments whose strings were mechanically vibrated. See piano
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
The principles on which this projection is founded were first explained by Edward Wright, an Englishman. It is universally employed in nautical charts. My Lord Barkeley wanting some maps, and Sir W. Coventry recommending the six maps of England that are bound up for the pocket, I did offer them. — Pepys's Diary, 1667. The great geographical achievements which distinguished the close of the fifteenth and the early portion of the sixteenth centuries, or the thirty years from 1492 to 1522, consist in the discovery of tropical America, the rapid determination of its form, the passage round the southern point of Africa to India, and the first circumnavigation of the globe. The triangular form of Africa is distinctly laid down in the planisphere of Sanuto as early as 1306; in the Genoese Portulano della Medice Laurenziana of 1351, discovered by Count Baldelli; and in the map of the world by Fra Manro. 1,700 years before this, Herodotus had characterized as incredible the stat
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