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homage ; invaded India in. 327, advancing as 

 far as the Hyphasis : his death is said to have 

 been caused by excessive drinking. 



. ALPIERI, Vittorio, 1749-1803, It. poet. 



ALFRED (the Great), 849?-901, king of the 

 West Saxons ; one of the greatest and noblest 

 of Englishmen ; established schools and a sys- 

 tem of police, and founded a navy. 



ALLEN, Ethan, 1737-89, Am. Revolutionary 

 commander ; captured Ticonderoga and Crown 

 Point in 1775 with only eighty-three men. 



ALLIBONE, Samuel Austin, 1816-89, Am. 

 writer. 



ALLSTOX, Washington, 1779-1843, Am. 

 painter. 



ALVA, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke 

 of, 1508-82, Spanish commander in Nether- 

 lands ; infamous for cruelty. 



AMBROSE, Saint, 340?-97, one of the fathers 

 of the Church. 



AMKRICUS, see Vespucci. 



AMES, Fisher, 1758-1808, Am. orator and 

 statesman. 



AMHERST, Jeffrey (Lord Amherst), 1717-97, 

 Br. general and field-marshal and governor of 

 Virginia. 



AMPERE, Andre Marie, 1775-1836, Fr. elec- 

 trician and natural philosopher. 



ANACREON, B. C. 560?-478*, Gr. lyric poet. 



ANAXAGORAS, B. C. 500-428, Gr. philos- 

 opher ; " the father of modern science." 



ANAXIMANDER, B. C. 610-547, Gr. philos- 

 opher. 



ANDERSEN, Hans Christian, 1805-75, Dan. 

 author. . 



ANDRASSY, Julian, Count, 1823-90, Hun- 

 garian statesman. 



ANDRE, John, 1751-80, Eng. spy,; hanged 

 for connection with the Arnold treason. 



ANDROS, Sir Edmund, 1637-1714, Br. col- 

 onial governor of New England. 



ANNE, 1664-1714, queen of England; last 

 of the Stuarts. 



ANTHONT, St., 251-356?, Egyptian founder 

 of monachism. 



ANTISTHENES, fl. 400 B. C., Gr. philosopher ; 

 founder of the Cynic school. 



ANTOINETTE, Marie, 1755-93, queen of Louis 

 XVI. of France ; guillotined. 



ANTONIUS, Marcus (Mark Antony), B. C. 

 93?-30, Rom. general and statesman. 



AQUINAS, Thomas, Saint (the Angelic Doc- 

 tor), 1224-74, theologian, teacher, and writer; 

 member of the order of St. Dominic ; the great- 

 est of the schoolmen of the middle ages. 



ARAM, Eugene, 1704-59, Eng. echolar; ex- 

 ecuted for the murder of one Daniel Clark, 

 whom he is said to have killed to procure means 

 for prosecuting his studies ; chief character in 

 one of Bulwer's novels. 



ARCHIMEDES, B. C. 2877-12, Gr. mathema- 

 tician and natural philosopher ; founder of 

 physics. 



ARGYLL (or ARGYLE), Archibald Campbell, 

 eighth earl, 1598-1661, Scot. Covenanter; de- 

 feated by Montrose ; executed for treason. 

 ARIOSTO, Ludovico, 1474-1533, It. poet. 

 ARISTIDES, B. C -468?, Athenian gen- 

 eral and statesman. 



ARISTOPHANES, B. C. 444?-380?, Gr. comic 

 poet ; his genius and audacity in burlesque 

 have never been equaled. 



ARISTOTLE (the Stagirite), B. C. 384-22, Gr. 

 founder of analytic philosophy. 



ARIUS, 255?-336?, patriarch of Alexandria 

 and founder of the Arian schism. 



ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard, 1732-92, Eng. 



manufacturer ; inventor of the spinning-jenny. 



ARMINIUS, Hermann, B. C. 16-21, A. D., 



Ger. hero ; defeated the Romans A. D. 9, near 



the Lippe. 



ARNAUD, Henri, 1641-1721, leader of the 

 Waldenses. 



ARNOLD, Benedict, 1740-1801, Am. general 



and traitor ; his plot to deliver West Point into 



the hands of the British was foiled by the cap- 



| ture of Major Andre, and he barely escaped ; 



j he became a colonel in the British army. 



ARNOLD OF BRESCIA (or Arnaldo), .... 

 -1155, It. reformer and orator. 



ARNOLD, Matthew, 1822-88, Eng. author, 

 poet, and critic. 



ARNOLD, Thomas, 1795-1842, Eng. historian. 



ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED, .... -1386, 



Swiss patriot, who broke the Austrian phalanx 



at the battle of Sempach by throwing himself 



against the points of their spears. 



ARTEMISIA, fl. 350 B.C., consort of Mau- 

 solus, prince of Caria, in whose memory she 

 erected a tomb numbered among the seven 

 wonders of the world. 



ARTEVELDE, Jacob van, 1300?-45, leader of 

 people of Ghent. 



ARTEVELDE, Philip van, son of J. v. A., 

 1340-82, leader of insurrection in Flanders. 



ARTHUR, Chester Alan, 1831-86, twenty- 

 first president of the United States ; born at 

 St. Albans, Vermont ; read law, was admitted 

 to the bar, and began practice in New York 

 city; 1860, quartermaster general on the staff 

 of Governor Morgan; 1871, collector of the 

 port of New York, but superseded, 1878, by 

 General Merritt; 1880, nominated for vice- 

 president by the Republicans and elected ; suc- 

 ceeded to the presidency on the death of Gar- 

 field. 



ASCHAM, Roger, 1515-68, Eng. scholar and 

 author. 



ASHBURTON, Alexander Baring, Lord, 1774- 

 1848, Eng. diplomatist. 



