ganizes Southern forces in Civil War, and President Davis's mili- tary adviser, 327, 328; com- mands army of North Virginia (June, 1862), takes part in the Seven Days' Battles, and forces McClellan to raise siege of Rich- mond, 328, 329; invades Mary- land and commands at Antietam and Fredericksburg, 333; de- feats Federals under Hooker at Chancellorsville (May, 1863), 333; at Gettysburg and defeat, 336-340; Grant's hammering campaign and Lee's tactical manoeuvring, 341; Confederacy losses and dearth of necessaries, 342; capitulation at Appomattox (April, 1865), 343; characteris- tics and qualities, 344-346, 348- 350; president of Washington College, Lexington, Va. (1865- 70), and death (Oct. 12), 353; compared with Grant, 357, 358, 371.
Legation, Moses' divine, ii, 122- 124, 125. Legations,
Foreign, at Peking, threatened by "Boxers" (1900), xiv, 297.
"Legend of Good Women," Chau- cer's, vi, 73.
Leges Populi.-Roman laws pro posed by the consul and passed by the centuries, iii, 40. Legislation, Mosaic, ii, 107; how secured in Greece and Rome, iii, 26; English, oppressive, xi, 47. Legislator, Charlemagne as a, v,
Legislature, New England Colonial (General Court), xi, 40. Legislatures, State and National, xi, 195.
Legitimists and Orléanists, x, 228, 229.
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Legouvé, Gabriel. (1807- .) French littérateur quoted, vii, 24, 43. Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von. (1646-1716.) German philoso- pher, vii, 169; xiv, 180. Leipsic, besieged and taken in Thirty Years' War, viii, 168; battle of (Oct., 1813) breaks Napoleon's power, ix, 156, 158. Leipsic, Luther's disputations at, vi, 234, 236.
Lenclos, Ninon de.-(1616-1706.) French-woman of society, vii,
Russian political leader; return to Russia, xv, 158; objectives for returning, 158-160; family history, 160, 161; education, 161, 163; identifies himself with Socialist cause, 163; disciple of Karl Marx, 163; exiled to Si- beria, 164; member of Russian Social Democratic Party, 165; I leader of Bolshevists, 167; rev- olutionary theory, 168-171; pe- culiar mentality, 171, 172; writings, 171; personal views, 172, 173; joined by Trotzky, 173; compared with Trotzky,
age, and missions undertaken, 367; represses the Manicheans and preserves unity of the faith, 370, makes 371; with Alaric and again with Genseric to save Rome, 372; earns title of Saint when the Church was last hope of fallen Empire, 373, 375; secures primacy and au thority of Roman See, 377-380; Papacy rooted firmly in his era, 380; claim of spiritual suprem- acy, 383; disseminates patristic literature, 389; beneficent ser- vices of early mediæval popes, 389; the man, his era and his work, 391-394; vi, 243, 244, 245. Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici).— Pope (1513-21), sends Michael Angelo to quarry marble for nine years, vi, 212; 224, 233, 301. Leopold, Prince, of Saxe-Coburg, ix, 241, 318.
Leopold, Prince, of Hohenzollern, X, 298.
Leopold II.-(1747-92.) Emperor of Holy Roman Empire (1790- 92), coronation at Frankfort, ix, 139.
Lepanto, Battle of (1571), v, 349; ix, 315. Leschetizky, Theodore.—(1830- .) Polish pianist and composer, teacher of Paderewski, xv, 412- 414.
Lessing, Gotthold E.-(1729-81.) German poet and play writer, xiii, 430.
Le Tellier, F. Michel (Marquis de Louvois).-French minister un- der Louis XIV (1666-91), vi, 323, 325; vii, 157, 168; viii, 251, 264. Leto.(Latona).-Mother by Jupi- ter of Apollo and Artemis, i 118, 120.
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77). French astronomer, vi, 409.
Levi.-Joseph's brother, ii, 85. Levi, Tribe of, ii, 99.
Levites instruct people in prepara- tions for Passover, ii, 334. Lewes, George Henry.-(1817-78.) English Comtist and philosophi- cal writer. Scandal of his rela- tions with George Eliot, vii, 353; "Life of Goethe," 354; his ra- tionalism, 355; visits Continent with George Eliot, 357; death of, 385; xiv, 121. Lewis, Sir G. Cornewall.-(1806- 63.) English statesman, x, 338. Lewis
and Clarke's expedition across the Rocky Mountains, xi, 299.
Lexington, Battle of (April 19, 1775), xi, 51, 113, 236.
Leyden, John.-(1775-1811.) Scot- tish surgeon, poet, and Oriental- ist, xiii, 81.
Leyden jar, Invention of (1745), as an electric condenser, xi, 68, 69.
Liancourt, Duke of.-French royal-
Libanius. (Circa 314 A. D.) Greek sophist, v, 142. Liberals, English, x, 351, 354, 372. "Liberator," The, Founding of, by W. Lloyd Garrison (1831), xii, 215.
Liberator, The (Daniel O'Connell), X, 89.
Liberty, countries where it is pre- ferred to material power, ii, 151; personal, in Rome under the Emperors, iii, 74; right of Christian, xi, 25; religious, prin- ciples of, 27; Sons of, Societies in Massachusetts and Maryland, 224.
"Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality,"
vi, 227; reign of, under Marat, Danton, and Robespierre in French Revolution, ix, 87; watchwords of, x, 206.
Liberty and Absolutism, great con- tests between, ix, 115. "Liberty or
Death," legend breasts of patriot forces, xi, 328. Liege, Belgium, Frederic the Great seizes part of the territory of the bishop of, viii, 373.
Light Brigade, Sir Colin Camp- bell's, in the Crimean War, x, 187.
"Light Brigade, Charge of the," Tennyson's, xiii, 462.
Lightning rods, Franklin's use of, xi, 68.
Li Hung Chang.-(1823-1901.) Chinese statesman and viceroy. Theme: "The Far East," xiv, 255; operates against rebels of Shanghai, 256; general and gov- ernor of Kiangsu and serves on special embassies, 257; native dynasties of China, 259; inter- course with China by land, 257; by sea, 261; begins career dur- ing Opium War, 271; wins aca- demic honors, 272; turns tide of Taiping rebellion, 277; with "Chinese Gordon" recovers Suchau from rebels, 278; causes leaders to be beheaded in spite of terms of capitulation, 278; created an earl, 279; connec- tion with war with France, 289; viceroy at Tientsin, 293; mis- sion to procure peace with Japan, 293; viceroy at Canton, 298; makes peace for China with allied Powers at close of "Boxer" rising (1900), 298; death, 299.
Limpopo river, South Africa, dia- monds found in the, xiv, 346.
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Lin.-Chinese Commissioner, cap- tures English opium at Canton, xiv, 270.
Lincoln, Abraham.- -(1809-6 5.) President of United States (1861-65), Gettysburg Address, x, 326; xi, 52, 221, 320; era of Civil War, theme: "Preser- vation of the Union," xii, 241; splitting rails (1830) at Sanga- mon, Ill., 241; appearance and character in early youth, 242; flat-boating, 242; in Black Hawk War, 243; village post- master, 243; at age of 24, 243; innate greatness, 244; ambitious, aspires to politics, 245; stump orator, 246; in grocery business, then studies law, 247; surveyor, and Whig State legislator, 248; declares against slavery, 249; admitted to the bar, and settles at Springfield, Ill., 250; meets S. A. Douglas in debate, 251; elected to Congress (1846), 251; marries, 251; Herndon, his law partner and biographer, 253; as a qualified abolitionist and op- posed to "Popular Sovereignty" he attacks Douglas and adds to his reputation, 264-267; speech at Cooper Institute, N. Y. (1859), 268; becomes Presi- dent, 272; inaugural address, 275; Cabinet, 276; secession of the South and election of Davis as Confederate President, 273, 276; firing on Fort Sumter, 278; Bull Run, and McClellan in command, 281, 283; disasters and humiliations, 285; Burnside succeeds Pope and McClellan, 289; Fredericksburg and its re- verses, 290; Decree of Emanci- pation (Jan. 1, 1863), 292; Hooker succeeds Burnside, and meets reverse at Chancellors-
ville, 293; Meade in chief com- mand and defeats Lee at Gettys- burg, 294; Grant captures Vicks- burg, 294, and New Orleans is occupied by Union troops, 297; Grant given chief command, wins Chattanooga and is made lieut.- general, 298, 299; his head- quarters Culpeper Court House, 303; Lee, and Grant's policy of attrition applied to his forces, 303, 304; Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, 305; losses in men and money on both sides, 305, 306; achievements of Rosecrans, Thomas, Sherman, and Sheridan, and naval ex- ploits of Farragut, Porter, and Foote, 306; Cabinet reconstrue- tion, and reëlection of Lincoln (1864), 308; second inaugural, 309, 310; assassination, and burial in Illinois, 313; eulogy, 315-317; xiv, 218; compared with Clemenceau, XV, 294. Lincoln, General Benjamin- (1733-1810.) American general, xi, 148.
Lingard, John.- - (1771-18 51.) English Roman Catholic histori- an, ix, 272.
Lister, Lord.—(1827-1912.) Anti- septic method of bandaging in surgery, xiv, 463-466; xvi, 80, 81.
Listerism, or "chemical cleanli- ness" in surgical operations,- aseptic surgery established by Sir Joseph, now Lord, Lister, xiv, 466.
Liszt, Franz.-(1811-66.)
garian composer and pianist, xiv, 44-47, 58, 59, 61, 64-66. Literary genius, i, 319.
Literary women of the 18th cent., vii, 265.
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African missionary and traveller. Theme: "African Development," xiv, 303; era of, 306; "the world needs Africa," said he to Stanley, 307; youth, parentage, and education of, 309; enters African missionary service and labors for nine years near Kim- berley, meets Robert Moffatt and marries his daughter, 309; death of the latter in Lower Zambesi, 309; begins explorations and wins his way by kindness to na- tives, 310, 311; discovers Lake Mweru and Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, 313; at Blantyre, in Nyassa highlands, where 8 church was built for natives, 314, 315; reaches Lake Ngami, 315; journeys of 1853-56, 12,000 miles in length, 316; Sir Roderick Murchison, to whom he
dedicates his "Missionary Trav- els," 316, 317; returns to Eng- land from his third journey, re- ception and appearance, 317, 318; his "Narrative of an Ex- pedition to the Zambesi," 318; returns to Africa in 1866 and Stanley's successful search for him in 1871, 318, 319; his later researches and published account in "Last Journeys," 319; dies at Ilala, near south coast of Lake Bangweolo, May 1, 1873, 320; accuracy of his geographi- cal work and contributions to anthropology and natural his- tory, 320, 321; brilliant and unsullied success, 321.
Livingstone, Edward, of La., Sec- retary of State in Jackson's Cab- inet (1831-33), xii, 53.
Livius, Andronicus (Livy), Roman dramatic poet, of Greek birth.- (284-204 B. C.) His plays, i 331, 352-354.
Lloyd George, David. (1863- .) English statesman, XV, 21; is made Prime Minister, 22; pop- ularity of, 22; training con- trasted with William of Hohen- zollern, 22; personality, 23, 56; physical characteristics, 24-26; family history, 26, 27; elected to Parliament, 27; is annuity by Carnegie, 27; of Board of Trade, 28;
cellor of Exchequer, 28; against Boer War, 31; fights for re- form of budget, 31, 32; member of Asquith's cabinet, 31, 32; in- decision at beginning of war, 33; early radicalism, 30, 31; achievements in war, 34-39; Minister of Munitions, 35; atti- tude toward peace conferences, 39-42; leadership challenged,
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