User:Ficaia/Miscellany

Jim Cirillo

James "Jim" Cirillo, Sr. (19??–2007) was an American police officer.

https://gundigest.com/handguns/personal-defense/mastering-jim-cirillos-technique-for-coarse-aim-shooting

https://www.thearmorylife.com/cirillos-guns-bullets-and-gunfights/

https://www.thetacticalwire.com/features/d0ce13f9-88ef-4514-a6e9-40d7e1ec8bfc

https://archive.org/details/policefirearmsin0000gras/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

https://archive.org/details/gundigestbookofc0000ayoo/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

https://archive.org/details/Modern_Law_Enforcement_Weapons_Tactics_2nd_Edition_1991/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

https://archive.org/details/the-m1-carbine-leroy-thompson/page/64/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

https://archive.org/details/unthinkablewhosu00ripl/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

https://archive.org/details/semiautomaticpis0000ayoo/mode/2up?q=%22Jim+Cirillo%22

X"Alnaschar's Dream", also called the "Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother", is one of the Arabian Nights.

Summary

Alnaschar is the barber's fifth brother, much given to unprofitable dreaming and anticipation of the future. Having invested all his money in a basket of glassware he sat down by the roadside and fell to calculating how the profits, material and immaterial, would roll in. So much would be secured over the purchase money, investments and reinvestments would make him wealthy enough to marry the Vizier's daughter and set up a splendid establishment. But just here he had an imaginary quarrel with his wife, kicked out his foot and smashed all the ware that was the foundation of his dream.

Influence

Æsop has a fable on similar lines which La Fontaine has versified as Perrette et le Pot au Lait; see PERRETTE. Dodslay has paraphrased La Fontaine in The Milkmaid and her Pail of Milk. Rabelais puts into Echepron's mouth the analogous story The Shoemaker and a Ha'porth of Milk. One of the stories in the Panka Tantra (AD 550), a collection of Indian tales, concerns a Brahmin beggar who reflected that if he saved his rice, a famine might occur, the rice would sell for 100 rupees, enough to buy two goats, and so he might proceed until he was a wealthy man with a farm and a wife and a son whom he would call Somo Sala. Dandling his imaginary son upon his knee he spilt all his rice. Hence the proverbial phrase for a dreamer, "He is the father of Somo Sala."

https://archive.org/details/heroesheroinesof00wals/page/16/mode/2up

Jim Buchanan (murderer)

Jim Buchanan
Died	October 15, 1902 Nacogdoches, Texas, US
Criminal status	Deceased
Criminal penalty	Death

Jim Buchanan () was an American convicted murderer.

Sources

• Borders, Gary B. (2006). A Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870–1916. University of Texas Press.

Further reading

• X

Contemporary news:

• "Hanging was Legal". El Paso Herald. October 18, 1902. p. 1.

The Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn

"The Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn" is one of the stories of the One Thousand and One Nights.

Summary

The story is told by Amr bin Masa'dah, one of the viziers of caliph al-Maamun. Abu Isa, brother to al-Maamun, is secretly enamoured of Kurrat al-Ayn, a slave girl owned by the vizier Ali bin Hisham, but is unable to purchase her from her wealthy master. One day he is granted leave by the Caliph to pay a visit to the Vizier. Abu Isa is received with a sumptuous banquet, and through the exchange of verses his love for Kurrat al-Ayn is eventually revealed.

"The Craft and Malice of Women; or the Tale of the King, His Son, His Concubine and the Seven Viziers" is a frame story within the One Thousand and One Nights. The narrative cycle includes a number of enframed stories.

Sources

• Marzolph, Ulrich; Leeuwen, Richard van (2004). "Abû 'Îsâ and Qurrat al-'Ayn, 148 The Loves of" (PDF). The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio. pp. 70–1.

Further reading

• Gerhardt, Mia Irene (1963). The Art of Story-telling: A Literary Study of the Thousand and One Nights. Brill. pp. 125–30.
• Chauvin, Victor (1901). Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux arabes. Vol. 5. Liège: Vaillant-Carmanne. pp. 112, no. 47.

X

X

Moschus II

Moschus II, often titled XXX ('Europa') is an epyllion by the ancient Greek poet Moschus.

Moschus tells in Epic verse how the virgin Europa, after dreaming of a struggle between the two continents for the possession of her, was carried off from among her companions by Zeus in the form of a bull, and borne across the sea from Tyre to Crete, there to become his bride. The earlier half of the poem contains a description of Europa's flower-basket. It bears three pictures in inlaid metal—Io crossing the sea to Egypt in the shape of a heifer, Zeus restoring her there by a touch to human form, and the birth of the peacock from the blood of Argus slain. ((Edmonds))

Sources

• Hopkinson, ed. (2015). Theocritus. Moschus. Bion. LCL 28 (Neil ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 448–65.

Attribution: This article incorporates text from these sources, which are in the public domain.

• Edmonds, J. M., ed. (1919). The Greek Bucolic Poets (3rd ed.). William Heinemann. pp. 223–31.

Further reading

• Banks, J.; Chapman, J. M. (1870). The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, and the War-Songs of Tyrtæus. London: Bell and Daldy. pp. 181, 311.
• Elton, C. A. (1814). Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus. Vol. 1. London: Robert Baldwin. pp. 377–82.
• Higham, T. F.; Bowra, C. M. (eds.). The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 619–20, 754.

External links

•  Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Εὐρώπη
• "Moschus, Ευρωπη". Perseus Digital Library.

Brian Ruadh O'Brien

Brian Ruadh O'Brien
King of Thomond
Reign	1267–1277
Died	1276
House	O'Brien dynasty
Father	Toirdhealbhach Donn Ó Briain

Brian Ruadh O'Brien (Irish: Brian Ruadh Ó Briain; died 1276)

Life

Brian Ruadh O'Brien, king of Thomond, was second son of Conchobhar O'Brien. On his father's death in 1267 he was inaugurated chief of the Dal Cais, or king of Thomond, on Magh Adhair; and when Sioda MacNeill MacConmara proclaimed his title, not one of the assembled chiefs of the septs spoke in opposition. He demolished Castle Connell on the Shannon in 1261. He went to war with the English in 1270, and captured the castle of Clare, county Clare, and in 1272 slew one of the lords justices. In 1275 Sioda MacConmara, who had proclaimed him king, rose against him in the interest of Turlough O'Brien, son of Tadhg of Caoluisce O'Brien, and in alliance with the O'Deas, by whom Turlough had been fostered. They marched to Clonroad in such force that Brian Ruadh, with his sons and household, fled across the Shannon to the cantred of Omullod. There he raised his subordinate chiefs, and, with his son Donogh, entered into alliance with the English of Munster under De Clare. He agreed to give De Clare all the lands between Athsollus and Limerick in return for his alliance. The trysting-place was Limerick, and thence Brian Ruadh, with the men of Cuanach and of Omullod and De Clare, with the Geraldines and the Butlers, marched by night, reaching Clonroad before sunrise, but failed to capture Turlough, as he was absent on a visit to Tadhg Buidh and Ruaidhri MacMathghamhna in Corcovaskin. Brian Ruadh occupied Clonroad, which his father had fortified, and thither came to support him Mathghamhain MacDomhnaill Connachtach O'Brien, with his sons and fighting men, and the O'Gradys and O'Heichirs. Brian attacked the O'Deas and O'Griobhthas, and then marched to Quin, county Clare, to attack Clancullen and MacConmara, who retired into the woods of Echtghe. De Clare had meantime built the castle, of which the ruins remain, at Bunratty, county Clare, while Turlough O'Brien collected an army. Brian Ruadh O'Brien and De Clare marched to meet him at Moygressan, but were defeated by Turlough after a long and obstinate battle, and retreated in disorder to Bunratty. Patrick Fitzmaurice, De Clare's brother-in-law, was slain, and De Clare's wife incited her husband against Brian as the cause of this loss. Her father, Fitzmaurice of Kerry, was in the castle, and, by way of satisfaction to them, De Clare, mortified and enraged by his defeat, hanged Brian Ruadh O'Brien there and then (Caithreim). He was succeeded as chief of the Dal Cais and king of Thomond by his nephew, Turlough O'Brien (died 1306), son of Tadhg of Caoluisce, grandson of Conchobhar O'Brien; the history of Turlough's wars with De Clare is related in the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh of Magrath. That work was doubtless composed contemporaneously with the war, as has been shown for the first time by S. H. O'Grady in the edition of the Caithreim which has been published by the Cambridge University press.

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16534034

See also

• List of monarchs of Thomond

Sources

• X

Attribution:

• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/O%27Brien,_Brian_Ruadh

X

X

X

Laurent de Gorrevord

Laurent II de Gorrevord, Baron de Marnay, Baron de Montenai, Comte de Pont-de-Vaux, Vicomte de Salins (also called de Gouvenot; c. 1470–1529) was a Savoyard nobleman who was the confidant and envoy of Margaret of Austria to the Spanish Netherlands. In 1518 he received a permit from Charles I of Spain which marked the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa and the Spanish colonies in the Americas. He was also Margaret of Austria's ambassador to Henry VIII of England in 1520.

Life

Laurent de Gorrevod, born about 1470, was the son of Jean and Jeanne de Loriol-Challes.

X

X

X

Slave trade

In 1518, the young king of Spain, Charles I, freshly arrived in his kingdom from the Netherlands with a crowd of Flemish favourites in his train, proceeded to issue gratuitously a license for the trade in bozal negroes to one of the Flemings at his court, Laurent de Gouvenot, known in Spain as Garrevod, the governor of Breza. This license empowered the grantee and his assigns to ship from Guinea to the Spanish islands, where labour was in high demand, four thousand slaves. Historians formerly placed this grant in the year 1517, and called it a contract (asiento); but Georges Scelle discovered and printed the document itself which bears the date 18 August 1518, and is clearly a license of grace bearing none of the distinctive asiento features. Garrevod, who wanted ready cash rather than a trading privilege, at once divided his license into two and sold them for 25,000 ducats to certain Genoese merchants domiciled at Seville, who in turn split them up again and put them on the market where they became an object of active speculation at rapidly rising prices. The result was that when slaves finally reached the islands under Garrevod's grant the prices demanded for them were so exorbitant that the purposes of the original petitioners were in large measure defeated. Meanwhile the king, in spite of the nominally exclusive character of the Garrevod grant, issued various other licenses on a scale ranging from ten to four hundred slaves each. For a decade the importations were small, however, and the island clamour for more slaves increased.

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1808157

https://archive.org/search?query=%22Laurent+de+Gouvenot%22&sin=TXT

https://archive.org/search?query=%22Laurent+de+Gorrevod%22&sin=TXT

Sources

• Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (1918). American Negro Slavery. London and New York: D. Appleton and Company. pp. 17–18. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Wildermann, Ansgar (9 September 2005). "Louis de Gorrevod". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (online ed.). Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 5 June 2023.

Further reading

• X

X

X

X

John Scogan

John Scogan or Scroggin (fl. 1480) was a celebrated fool at the court of Edward IV. He was perhaps graduated M.A. at Oriel College, Oxford, and thereafter became a fool at Edward IV's court, whence he was temporarily banished to France. It is not improbable that his biography, which is supplied in his Jests, said to have been compiled by Andrew Boorde, is apocryphal and that Scogan is a fictitious hero.

Accounts

John Scogan is said to have acquired wide fame in the capacity of fool at the court of Edward IV. No strictly contemporary reference to John Scogan is discoverable, although the Christian name was borne at an earlier date by various members of the Norfolk family to which the poet belonged. All that is known of the fool is derived from a volume purporting to collect his Jests, which was compiled in the sixteenth century by, it is said, Dr. Andrew Boorde, a witty physician, who died in 1549. The anonymous editor of the volume states, in a prefatory note, that he had "heard say that Scoggin did come of an honest stock, no kindred, and that his friends did set him to schoole at Oxford, where he did continue till he was made master of art." Warton, on no known authority, assigned him to Oriel College. The Jests themselves include many that are familiar in The merie tales of Skeltoun and similar collections of earlier date. The pretension that they were edited by Andrew Boorde was doubtless the fraudulent device of an enterprising bookseller, and it is not unreasonable to suspect that the whole was a work of fiction, and that Scogan is a fictitious hero. The tales supply a rough biography of Scogan, which is clearly to a large extent apocryphal. According to them, he was educated at Oxford and graduated in arts. He prepared for the priesthood the son of a husbandman of the neighbourhood, and when the plague raged in Oxford—apparently in 1471—withdrew with other tutors to the hospital of St. Bartholomew in the suburbs. Subsequently he dwelt in London, whence he removed for a time to Bury. At length he obtained the post of fool in the household of one Sir William Neville, whom it is difficult to identify. Neville brought him to court, and his wit delighted the king and queen. The former gave him a house in Cheapside. He went on progress with the court, and received rich gifts from the courtiers. Subsequently, by his freedom of speech, he offended the king and retired to Paris. He was well received by the French king, but was ultimately banished from France. Returning to England, he found himself still out of favour at the English court, and paid a visit to a friend named Everid, who resided at Jesus College, Cambridge. After travelling with Everid to Newcastle, he obtained pardon of the king and queen. Soon afterwards he died of a "perillous cough", and was buried on the east side of Westminster Abbey. The site of his grave was subsequently occupied by Henry VII's chapel. He married young, and had at least one son. Holinshed enumerates among the great men of Edward IV's time "Skogan, a learned gentleman, and student for a time at Oxforde, of a pleasaunte witte, and bente to mery devises, in respect whereof he was called into the courte, where, giving himself to his naturall inclination of mirthe and pleasant pastime, he plaied many sporting parts, althoughe not in suche uncivill maner as hath bene of hym reported." Holinshed evidently derived his information from the book of Jests traditionally associated with Scogan's name.

Works

No early edition of Scogan's Jests is extant. In 1565–6 Thomas Colwell obtained a license for printing "the geystes of Skoggon gathered together in this volume". The wording of the entry suggests that some of the 'geystes' had already been published separately. The only argument adduced in favour of Boorde's responsibility for the publication lies in the fact that Colwell, the first publisher, had succeeded to the business of Robert Wyer, who was Boorde's regular publisher. The work was repeatedly reissued; an edition dated 1613 was in the Harleian collection. The earliest now known is dated 1626, and the title runs, The First and Best Part of Scoggins Jests. Full of Witty Mirth and Pleasant Shifts, done by him in France and other places: being a Preservative against Melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of physicke, London. Printed by Francis Williams, 1626, 12mo (black letter). An abridgment (chap-book) was issued about 1680, and again by Caulfield in 1796. The full text is in Hazlitt's Old English Jest-books.

Numerous references to 'Scoggin's Jests' in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature attest their popularity. In 1575 the tract was in the library of Captain Cox. ‘Scoggin's Jests’ was coupled with ‘The Hundred Merry Tales’ as popular manuals of witticisms in the epilogue of ‘Wily Beguil'd,’ 1606 (written earlier). In 1607 there appeared a like collection of jests, under the title of ‘Dobson's Drie Bobbes, son and heire to Scoggin.’ ‘Scoggin's jests’ is numbered among popular tracts of the day by John Taylor, the water-poet, in his ‘Motto’ (1622), and in ‘Harry White his Humour’ (1640?), as well as in the comedy called ‘London Chaunticleers’ (1659). Fulk Greville, lord Brooke, versified a coarse anecdote of ‘Scoggin’ in ‘Caelica,’ No. xlix. In 1680, at the trial of Elizabeth Cellier, one of the judges, Baron Weston, indicated his sense of the absurdity of the evidence of a witness who confusedly related his clumsy search after a suspected person by remarking, ‘Why, Scoggin look'd for his knife on the housetop.’ The words refer to Scogan's account of his search for a hare on the housetop (State Trials, vii. 1043).

The frequent association of Scogan's name with Skelton's in popular literature is attributable to a double confusion, in that both Skelton and the elder Scogan were poets, and that on both Skelton and the alleged younger Scogan were fathered collections of jests. Drayton, in the preface to his ‘Eclogues,’ mentions that ‘the Colin Clout of Scogan under Henry VII is pretty’—a manifest misreading for Skelton. Gabriel Harvey describes ‘Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin’ as ‘innocents [when compared] to Signor Capricio,’ i.e. Harvey's foe, Thomas Nash (1567–1601) [q. v.]

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Scogan,_Henry

See also

• Henry Scogan

Sources

• X

Further reading

• X

External links

• X

Category:15th-century people

John Wilson (Union Army officer)

Colonel John Wilson (December 29, 1838 – May 7, 1864) rose to the rank of Colonel in the 43rd New York Infantry Regiment, New York Volunteers,

Origins

John Wilson, son of James and Ann Wilson, was born in Albany, New York, on December 29, 1838. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother was an American of Scottish descent. His maternal great grand-father served in the army of the American Revolution, upholding the cause of his adopted country. He was a man of physical strength, and power of endurance. He suffered much on board a prison ship near Brooklyn. His son, a boy of seventeen years, also served and was wounded in the Revolutionary war.

Early life

John Wilson received his education at the Albany Academy, which institution he entered at a very early age. He immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, in which his father was very desirous of having him proficient, as it was necessary to a scientific knowledge of the business, for which he designed to educate him. He studied the French language a number of years, and went farther than the course prescribed by the Academy. His father dying when he was sixteen, he suspended his studies and succeeded to his business of florist and nurseryman. In this he continued till he entered the army, giving up then a lucrative and prosperous business to devote himself to his country.

From his infancy he attended the Sabbath school established by his father, then the only Sabbath school in the section of the city where he resided. He was actively engaged in it till he entered the army, and was always interested in its success. He united with the Baptist Church in 1858, under the ministration of Rev. Dr. Hague. He maintained always a firm religious character, and while he was in the army, he devoted one-tenth part of his income to charitable and religious purposes.

Civil War

Wilson entered the Union army as a Captain, having raised a company for the second requisition of troops in the summer of 1861. In about one week from the time he had resolved to enlist, his company was raised. They marched to the barracks, on Saturday, August 3, the first soldiers to occupy the barracks after the troops of the first requisition had gone to the field.

On July 17, 1862, he was commissioned as Major, and as Lieutenant Colonel, September 24, 1862; which rank he held till February 1, 1864, when he received his commission as Colonel. He was in command of the regiment in 1862, from August 3, till October 22, commanding at the battle Antietam, September 17. He was the only field officer present with the regiment. From November 4 till December 25, he was in command, and was at the first battle of Fredericksburg. In 1863 he was in command of the regiment from June 17 till August 10, leading it at the battle of Gettysburg, which was fought July 2d and 3d, 1863.

He possessed a constitution naturally very strong and healthful, yet he suffered from sickness during the encampment in the swamps before Richmond. Without proper nourishment, and unable to eat the only procurable food, he became so weak that he was not able to march with the regiment when the army withdrew from that position. For several days he found conveyance with the wagon train. He suffered also from an attack of camp fever in July, 1862, but remained all the time with the regiment.

Col. Wilson yielded to none of the temptations of camp life, but whatever he saw of evil seemed to be only a warning to him to shun it. He refrained ever from innocent indulgences, that his example to others might be the purer. An officer who was associated with him from the beginning of his early career, said of him, that "he was the most perfect man he ever saw." His commanding personal appearance; his firmness; his love of the profession of arms; his accurate knowledge and strict observance personally of all duties connected with a soldier's life; his pure, unselfish patriotism, and above all, his faith in God, eminently fitted him for the position of commander.

He was always hopeful and confident of the success of the army and believed in the vigorous prosecution of the war. He had no personal fear in conflict, firmly believing that his life was in God's hands, and that under his protection he was as safe on the battle field as he would be at home. He was entirely devoted to the interests of the men under his charge, both as captain of a company and after his promotion to the field. He was always interested for the religious character of his associates in the army, an instance of which is seen in a letter to his mother, written January 16th, 1864, desiring her to present to a brother officer, whom he feared was careless about religion, a Bible similar to one she had sent him. Of course, the gentleman was entirely unaware of his Colonel's agency in the matter, and received the book when he was in Albany, with evident pleasure and promises to read it. This officer fell in the battle of the Wilderness.

He won, in large measure, the friendship and esteem of those with whom he was associated. A letter written soon after his death, by a brother Colonel, speaks of him as many felt: "I cannot close this without adding something in memory of the brave dead, my associate in the camp and on the held of battle, and personal friend, Col. John Wilson. In his death, our beloved country lost one of its firmest supporters and purest patriots; the service an accomplished soldier, and a refined and Christian gentleman. What the loss is to his family, the anguish of a mother's heart, and the deep grief of affectionate sisters, can alone tell. He was beloved by all who knew him personally, and honored and respected by all with whom he met. In his death, I lost a pure-minded and high-souled friend. No fitting eulogium can be paid to the dead who die in the defence of their country. Their deeds are more lasting than words, and no nobler epitaph can be written than 'killed in battle, May 6, 1864.'"

Single-hearted himself, he never attributed unworthy motives to others, and strove always to do his duty without sparing himself.

The chaplain of the regiment says of him in a recent letter: "I think I never knew a man who so completely and truly made duty his watchword, and never one who had so thorough a conviction, in all circumstances, that the place of duty was the place of safety; and out of this conviction, I think, in great part grew his remarkable coolness in danger. He believed that God directed and ordered the events of life and death, and that we could not, by any action of our own, change them. The result of this was a character which, in inhesitancy and directness, was perfectly Cromwellian."

Maj. Gen, W. S. Hancock testifies to his character as a soldier in the following words:

"Col. John Wilson, of the Forty-third New York Volunteers, was well known to me, and served under my command, in the Army of the Potomac, for a period of more than a year.

"As his conmiander, I was early attracted by his many good qualities, as a faithful and able officer, and had frequent opportunities to notice his character and conduct. In paying this slight tribute to one who attested his devotion to his country by the sacrifice of his life, I desire to express in the strongest terms my appreciation of the many admirable and brilliant qualities he displayed while under my command. His amiable and chivalrous character, added to his gentle bearing, made him friends wherever he was known; and when he fell at the 'Wilderness,' while leading his command against the enemy, he was only exhibiting his accustomed example of daring courage and rare devotion to duty. He was mourned by myself, and by every officer and soldier with whom he had been associated."

The following are the circumstances attending the death of Col. John Wilson, as given by his personal servant :

"On the morning of May 6, 1864 (Friday), Col. Wilson was slightly wounded in the calf of the leg during a hasty skirmish. He paid no attention to the wound, which had no serious effect, as he was in excellent health and spirits, up to the hour of his receiving the wound which resulted in his death.

"This occurred on the same day between the hours of five and six p. m., when the enemy made a most determined and fierce attack on the right of the Sixth Corps. The division on the right of Neil's Brigade gave way, and the Second Division bore for a long time the brunt of the battle.

"At the first attack, and while rushing to the front to place his regiment in the most favorable position, Col. Wilson was wounded, and the rebels charged completely over him—for awhile gaining ground. The Second Division rallying, drove the enemy from the position, recovering the person of their beloved commander.

"It was found that the right knee was shattered by a rifle ball, and he was immediately carried some three miles to the rear to the Fifth Corps hospital—the enemy having in his temporary march cut off connnunication with the Sixth Corps field hospital. At ten a. m. the following day the surgeons decided that amputation might perhaps save the Colonel's life, and the limb was amputated. As he was carried from the operating table and laid beside Lieut. Col. Fryer, the latter said : 'I am sorry, Colonel.' The heroic answer was: 'Major, it is all for the old flag.'

"About an hour after the operation, the Colonel was seized with a violent pain in the left side, which continued to increase in violence until about twenty minutes after three. This violent pain seemed to be the direct cause of his death, which took place at about half past three. His last words were addressed to his faithful attendant, Moon, and were these: 'I can't stand it.'

"That evening the whole army train, with the wounded, was to go to Rappahannock Station, but the enemy being reported at the fords of the Rapidan the destination was changed, and for some time it was uncertain where they were to go.

"Sergeant Sweeney of Company A, attached to the ammunition and supply trains of the Artillery Brigade, Sixth Corps, did his best to bring otf the body of Colonel Wilson. For some time he was enabled to carry the body, which had been carefully wrapped in blankets, but at about ten o'clock the medical director ordered the body to be buried, which was done.

"The grave was marked with a simple head-board, and in order to identify the spot a rifle was buried in the same grave."

Extract of a letter written to Mrs. Wilson by William Moon:

"As soon as I found out that the Colonel was wounded, I went to the hospital where he was. I saw him on a table under the influence of chloroform. After his limb was amputated, he revived: I went to him, and he said he wanted me to stay with him. After that they removed him to the tent where Major Fryer was. We made a bed beside him for the Colonel. He seemed to feel pretty well until about half past two, when be was taken with a pain in his left side. I went to the surgeon and told him, and he gave me a mustard plaster to put on his side. That did not ease tbe pain, and I went and told the surgeon and be came himself to see him, and he gave him a pill, but nothing could ease that pain. Just before he died be took my hand in his, and said: 'Moon, I can't stand it.' Those were the last words he said; he died very easy. I think if any man went to heaven he did."

When the gentleman who went to bring home the remains arrived at the scene of the conflict the ground was in possession of the enemy, as our forces, with the wounded, had withdrawn to Fredericksburg. He was well acquainted with the country about there, and procured a flag of truce from Gen. Meade that he might bring off Col. Wilson's body. Tbe rebels refused to acknowledge a flag of truce from any other officer than Gen. Grant. It was procured, and he was enabled to find the grave and bring away the body in safety.

The remains reached Albany on Wednesday, May 25th. The funeral took place on the following Sunday, May 29th.

To appreciate tbe services of this distinguished officer, we need only trace the history of the Forty-third Regiment that was fired with his zeal and animated by his patriotic enthusiasm.

The regiment left Albany for Washington, Sept. 16th, 1861. It was mustered into the United States service Sept 22d, 1861, and was, by orders of the War Department, attached to the brigade commanded by Brig. Gen, W, S. Hancock, Smith's Division. It took part in all the movements of the Army of the Potomac, from Centreville, via Alexandria, to Fortress Monroe and the Peninsula, arriving in front of the rebel works, at Lee's Mills, April 5th, 1862. April 16th it supported the batteries of the division in their spirited attack on the rebel works, losing one man wounded. April 28th it covered a working party beyond the picket line; skirmished with the enemy for an hour and a half, losing one man killed, one officer and eleven men wounded. On the withdrawal of the army from the front of Richmond, the Forty-third held the extreme right of the line of the Chickahominy, thrice repulsing the famous Eighth Georgia Regiment, and holding the ground until after dark, contributing greatly to the successful withdrawal of Porter across the river. It lost, in the action, forty-three men killed and wounded. Throughout the famous seven days' battles, and in the subsequent campaign of Pope before Washington, and McClellan in Maryland, the regiment was present at every engagement from Golden Farm to Antietam. While at Harrison's Landing the old companies were consolidated into five, and five full companies were recruited and officered in Albany, N. Y., to fill the regiment to the required standard. These companies were mustered into the U. S. service Sept. 14th, 1862, and joined the old regiment in Maryland.

After the battle of Fredericksburg, where the regiment lost twelve men killed and wounded, it was deemed advisable to organize a Light Division for the most arduous duties. The Forty-third was one of the five regiments selected from the army to constitute the infantry force. At the battle of Fredericksburg, the Light Division carried the pontoons one mile and a quarter by hand and at night, completely surprising the enemy. When the first assaulting column on the morning of May 3d had been repulsed in its attack upon Marye's Heights, the task of carrying this redoubtable position was entrusted to the Light Division. The colors of the Forty-third were the first planted upon their part of the works. The regiment captured in the charge two guns and seventy-five prisoners, pursuing the retreating enemy to Salem Heights, and the following night, together with the Sixth Maine regiment, repulsing a brigade of the enemy who attempted to cut off the retreat to Bank's Ford; losing in both actions, two hundred men and eleven oflicers. In the second Maryland campaign, the brigade to which the Forty-third was attached, marched thirty-two miles in twenty-four hours. July 2d, 1863, it reached Gettysburg to take part in that battle; drove back the enemy's skirmishers on the extreme right and established a line, which was held until the close of the engagement, losing one officer and two privates killed. In the subsequent movements to the Rapidan, the regiment bore its share of the dangers and hardships. On the occasion of the brilliant affair at Rappahannock, resulting in the capture of four guns, two brigades of infantry and eight battle flags, the Forty-third drove the enemy's skirmishers on the extreme right, procuring a position for artillery, and preventing the escape of any part of the force up the river, thus contributing to the completeness of the victory. The loss in the action was four men killed and six wounded.

After the Chancellorsville campaign the Light Division was discontinued and the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Corps, in which it subsequently served.

Col. Wilson, during his whole connection with the regiment, was never absent from it at the time of an engagement, and passed through the following battles: Lee's Mills, April 29th,1862; Warwick Creek, April 30th, 1862; Siege of Yorktown, 1862; Golden's Farm, June 27th, 1862; Seven days' battles, 1862; Antietam, Sept. 17th, 1862; Fredericksburg, Dec. 12th, 13th, 14th, 1862; Marye's Heights, May 3d, 1863; Salem Church, May 3d, 4th, 1863; Bank's Ford, May 4th, 1863; Fredericksburg, June 5th, 1863; Gettysburg, July 2d, 3d, 1863; Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7th, 1863; Locust Grove, Nov. 27th, 1863; Mine Run, Nov. 29th, 1863; Wilderness, May 5th and 6th, 1864.

He was in the service of the United States from August 3d, 1861, till the time of his death, May 7th, 1864.

https://albany.nygenweb.net/bio-32.htm

https://archive.org/details/theheroesofalb00clar/page/n157/mode/2up?view=theater

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7522069/john-wilson

https://archive.org/details/phisterernewyork03fredrich/page/2288/mode/2up?view=theater

Hume R. Feild

Hume R. Feild (18??–???) was . . .

Life

XXX

https://archive.org/search?query=%22Hume+R.+Field%22&sin=TXT

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hume+R.+Field&rlz=1C1VDKB_en-GBAU952AU953&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Sources

• X

Further reading

• X

Emblems of the Civil War

Emblems of the Civil War
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	137.6 cm × 129.8 cm (54.2 in × 51.1 in)
Location	Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Accession	66.5

Emblems of the Civil War is a still-life and trompe-l'œil by the American painter and wood-carver Alexander Pope Jr.

Description

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

xxx

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28801416

Related works

• 
  William Harnett: After the Hunt, 1883
• 
  William Harnett: The Loyal Colt, 1890

Sources

• Whiting, Cécile (1997). "Trompe l'œil Painting and the Counterfeit Civil War". The Art Bulletin, 79(2): pp. 251–268.

• Hoopes, Donelson F. (1966). "Alexander Pope, Painter of "Characteristic Pieces"". The Brooklyn Museum Annual, 8: pp. 129–146.

XXX

XXX

Bibliography

Women

• Every Woman's Encyclopaedia (Index)

England

• Biographia Navalis
• Men of the Reign
• Victoria County History (A, B)
• Chester Heralds
• The Reader's Digest of Books
• Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58212/58212-h/58212-h.htm

Scotland

• The Scots Peerage (3)

Ireland

• (Ball, F. Elrington (Francis Elrington), -1928)

Australia

• Roth, H. Ling (1899). The Aborigines of Tasmania. 2nd ed. Halifax: F. King & Sons. pp. 169, 175–176.

Russia

• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Austria-Hungary

• Wurzbach, Constantin von (1860). "Habsburg, Leopold I. der Glorreiche". In Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Vol. 6. Vienna: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. pp. 409–411.

Germany

• Tübinger Professorengalerie
• Harleß, Woldemar (1875). "Adolf I. (Graf von Kleve)". In Liliencron, Rochus von (ed.). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 1. Duncker & Humblot: Munich & Leipzig. pp. 98–100.
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)
• Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)
• Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (BLKÖ)
• County of Isenburg (turn redlinks into articles)

Italy

• Christian Hülsen's Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo

The Netherlands

• Klarenbeek, Hanna (2014). "Budde, Johanna Aleida (1800-1852)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis.

United States

• Confederate Colonels (Civil War biographies)
• History of Tennessee (Civil War biographies)
• Johnson, R.; Brown, J. H., eds. (1904). "Morgan, Charles Hale". The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. 7. Boston: The Biographical Society. n.p.
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 44, 45, 47, 48, (Index)
• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Appletons')
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Donovan, Stephen (1907). "Giovanni Antonio Bianchi". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company. pp. 540–541.

Oxford Reference

• McWilliams, J. H. (2006). "Brome, Alexander". In Kastan, David Scott (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press.

Art

• Het Pelsken (see reference list for sources on Rubens)
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint_Barbara_Polyptych Saint Barbara Polyptych (Warsaw)
• Facchinetti, Simone; Galansino, Arturo (2016). In the Age of Giorgione. London: Royal Academy of Arts. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-910350-26-3.
• Morassi, Antonio (1967). "Titian". In Encyclopedia of World Art. Vol. 14. London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited. col. 146.
• The Earlier Work of Titian
• The Later Works of Titian
• Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
• Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; and Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2021). "Pollet, Victor Florence". In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. De Gruyter.
• Coughy, G. (1900). "Pollet (Victor-Florence)". In Dreyfus, Ferdinand-Camille and Berthelot, André (eds.). La Grande Encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Vol. 27. Paris: Société anonyme de la grande encyclopédie. p. 141.
• Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Pollet, Victor Florence". "Pollet, A.". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. Oxford Art Online.
• Somov, Andrei Ivanovich (1898). "Pollet (Victor-Florence Pollet)". In Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Vol. 24: Obada–Prusik. St. Petersburg: F. A. Brockhaus and I. A. Efron. p. 436.
• Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1933). "Pollet, Victor Florence". In Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol. 27: Piermaria–Ramsdell. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 218.
• "Nécrologie". La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, No. 39. (16 December 1882). p. 302.
• "Nouvelles des arts". Journal des artistes, Vol. 2. No. 11. (9 September 1838). p. 153.
• Denkmäler des Klassischen Altertums (Greek Art)

Bible

• Miller, Josiah (1869). Singers and Songs of the Church. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Green, and Co. p. 354.
• Pick, B. (1886). "Asseburg, Rosamunde Juliane Von". In McClintock, John; Strong, James (eds.). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Supplement.—Vol. 2. New York: Haper & Brothers. p. 1046.
• McClintock, John; Strong, James (1880). "Betomas'them, Betomes'tham". Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. I.—A, B. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 791–92.
• Orr, James, ed. (1915). "Betomesthaim, Betomasthaim". The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia. Vol. I.—A–Clemency. Chicago: The Howard-Severance Company. p. 454.
• Adams, Hannah (1817). "Epefanoftschins". A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations. 4th ed. New York: James Eastburn and Company; Boson: Cummings and Hilliard. p. 76.
• Pinkerton, Robert (1814). The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia. [Translated from the Slavonian of Platon Levshin]. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh & Innes. p. 304.
• Gidney, W. T. (1908). History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. London: London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. pp. 288, 350.
• Betomasthem
• Monks of Ramsgate (1921). "Hiltrude". In The Book of Saints. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. pp. 136–137.
• Alban Butler (Lives of the Saints)

Other

• Plarr's Lives of the Fellows (*)
• Ball, F. Elrington (1926). The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921. London John Murray.
• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hoey, Josephine" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton. p. 226. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• [iarchive:unionarmyhistory08madi/page/292/mode/2up]"Watkins, Louis D.". The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65. Vol. 8. Madison, WI: Federal Publishing Company, 1908. pp. 292–293.
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians
• Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (1)
• The Earlier Work of Titian (1)
• Thomas Ogden Halifax (Google)

Biology

• List of Sparassidae species

Battle of Maiwand biographies

Sources

• See Thomas Rice Henn (British Army officer) and George Frederick Blackwood for references

Links

• User:Necrothesp/List of AfD discussions for individuals with a CBE or above
• User:Pickersgill-Cunliffe
• User:Dsp13
• User:Ffranc
• User:Pbritti

Article possibilities

• http://fr.wiki.x.io/wiki/%C3%89glise_de_Saint-Nectaire
• http://fr.wiki.x.io/wiki/Claude_Terrisse

http://fr.wiki.x.io/wiki/Alexandre_Antoine_Marolles

George Charles Hoste (lead)

Sir George Charles Hoste, CB (1786–1845) was an English officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of colonel in the Royal Engineers. The third son of the Rev. Dixon Hoste, he was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and obtained a commission as second lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1802. He was promoted first lieutenant in the same year, captain in 1812, brevet-major in 1814, lieutenant-colonel in 1825, brevet-colonel in 1838, and colonel in 1841.

In 1805 Hoste went with an expedition under Lieutenant-general Sir James Henry Craig to Gibraltar, Malta, and Naples, and ultimately landed in Sicily. He was in the battle of Maida, and at the siege of Scylla castle. He was afterwards in Egypt, in 1807, under Major-general McKenzie Fraser, and present at the taking of Alexandria, and the attack on Rosetta. He then returned to Sicily, where he served in different parts of that island from 1808 to 1809, until he was present at the attack and taking of the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples.

In 1810 he was in the Spartan frigate, under Captain Brenton, and distinguished himself during the engagement with a squadron of Neapolitan vessels in the Bay of Naples; for which he received from Ferdinand, King of Naples, the Order of Merit, and was recommended by Sir John Stuart for a majority, but was considered to be too young. He returned to England in 1811.

In 1813 he served in Holland with Sir Thomas Graham, and was present at the attack on Antwerp, and the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814, for which he obtained the brevet rank of major. He returned to England at the peace of 1814; and on the recommencement of the war in 1815 he joined the army at Brussels, and in the battle of Waterloo was attached to the Prince of Orange's (1st) Army Corps as Commanding Engineer, where he greatly distinguished himself: he was employed as a commissioner to give over the French fortresses on the northern frontier to the Prussians. He was employed on a committee in Canada in 1825; and in the same capacity in Ireland in 1828. He was made a Companion of the Bath after the battle of Waterloo, and a gentleman usher of the privy chamber to Queen Adelaide in 1830.

Giovanni Battista Costa (painter, born 1833)

Life

Giovanni Battista Costa was born in Livorno on 12 May 1833. He received his first lessons in Livorno with Giuseppe Baldini, the teacher of Giovanni Fattori; and then in Pisa, where he copied Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes in the Camposanto. He was a student from 1852 in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze under Enrico Pollastrini, and made copies of works in the Uffizi Gallery.

In 1859 he participated in the Concorso Ricasoli, and won the prize in the Episodi militari dell'ultima guerra section together with Silvestro Lega. After 1870, Costa devoted less time to religious subjects, and more to genre painting, especially scenes from ancient Rome and the Orient.

In 1875, together with Giovanni Paganucci and Giovanni Castellazzi, Costa declined the offer of the Japanese government of an art academy in Tokyo to set up and teach there. In 1879 he was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. He died in Florence on 6 December 1893.

Works

Costa painted historical costume pictures: at the Pinacoteca di Brera exhibition in 1879 he showed an Odalisca, bought by the Società di Belle Arti; and in Turin in 1880 he showed Ore felici, a painting of two musicians playing music. In the Galleria Pisani in Florence were by him: La schiava turca and Costume dell' Impero. Costa was also represented at German exhibitions in the 1870s and 80s.

Sources

• Stolzenburg, Andreas (2021). "Costa, Giovanni Battista (1833)". In Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. Retrieved 7 October 2022 – via De Gruyter.

X

X

Ahijah W. Grimes

Ahijah W. "Caige" Grimes (1850–1878) was an American lawman, deputy sheriff, and Texas Ranger. He was killed in the line of duty by the Sam Bass gang during their final stand against armed lawmen and civilians on July 19, 1878. Grimes was a Freemason.

The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office replaced Grimes' tombstone in 2015, and renamed the local police training center in his honor in 2018.

Sources

• Buchanan, Taylor Jackson (February 7, 2020). "'Gone but not forgotten': the lawman, A.W. Grimes, and the outlaw, Sam Bass, who became local namesakes". Community Impact (online ed.). Retrieved June 5, 2023.
• Cox, Mike (1997). "The Killing of "Caige" Grimes". Texas Ranger Tales: Stories That Need Telling. United States of America: Republic of Texas Press. pp. 53–68.
• Gripentrog, Craig. "A. W. Grimes". Williamson County Texas History. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
• Millweard, Christy (July 19, 2017). "The untold story of a slain Williamson County deputy and the outlaw who killed him". KVUE (online ed.).
• Stutzman, Brad (September 24, 2016). "Local officers to honor A.W. Grimes". Austin American-Statesman (online ed.).

Further reading

• "Capture of Sam Bass". Tri-Weekly Herald. July 23, 1878. p. 1.
• "Sam Bass Captured". The Marshall Messenger. July 26, 1878. p. 2.
• "Sam Bass and His Band". The Galveston Daily News. July 24, 1878. pp. 1–2.

External links

• Grimes, Benjamin Lyman, III; Grimes, Charles Bowman. "A Biography of Ahijah W. Grimes". McDade Texas. RootsWeb. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
• "Deputy Sheriff Ahijah W. "Caige" Grimes". Officer Down Memorial Page. Retrieved June 5, 2023.

Apostles (Rubens, Prado)

Rubens painted a series of twelve panels depicting the Twelve Apostles: Peter, John the Evangelist, James the Greater, Andrew, Philip, James the Less, Bartholomew, Mathias, Thomas, Simon, Matthew, and Paul, in around 1610 to 1612.

The pictures were lost in the seventeenth century, . The pictures were rediscovered in 1746 in the collection of Queen Isabel Farnesio, at the royal palace of La Granja. Each panel is marked with a fleur-de-lis, in the lower right corner, which was the mark of the Queen's collection.

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/saint-peter/191fcaa5-1841-41dd-bcae-939be2f88437

Potential articles

William Mann (1817–1873)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Mann,_William

Philip Bracebridge Homer (1765–1838)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Homer,_Philip_Bracebridge

Sir John Russell (fl. 1440–1470)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Russell,_John_(fl.1440-1470)

Nicholas le Blund (died 1304)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nicholas_le_Blund

Nicholas ap Gwrgant (died 1183)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nicholas_ap_Gwrgant

template:Cite NCAB title=chapter name and WP:FREECOPYING

Template:Cite NCAB is a wrapper tempate around {{cite encyclopedia}}. However the current version of the wrapper is showing its age and I am changing it to take all the parameters available to {{cite encyclopedia}}. I can do this because since this template was written some magic has taken place in templates that allows this to happen.

So the template does not override the checks in {{cite encyclopedia}} See: PBS (talk)

Palladas (c. AD 360–430)

A Question of Gender

THE dominie's daughter eloped with a suitor,
And the baby was masculine, feminine, neuter.

— Sir William Marris

(The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, 1938, p. 655)

Sources

• https://www.getty.edu/research/special_collections/highlights/middle_east/

X

X

X

Adoration of the Bronze Snake

The Adoration of the Bronze Snake, also called the Brazen Serpent, is a fresco by Bronzino, executed for the Cappella di Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, from 1540 until 1545.

History

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67205784

Details

• 
• 
• 
• 

Sources

• McComb, Arthur (1928). Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 34–5.
• McCorquodale, Charles (1981). Bronzino. London: Jupiter Books Ltd. pp. 72–3, 75–6.

Category:Paintings by Bronzino

X

X

X