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pension afterhisfather'sdeath, 1853, 

 he lost no opportunity of fomenting 

 discontent in the disaffected parts 

 of India. On the outbreak of the 

 Mutiny he proclaimed himself 

 peshwa, wreaking his vengeance on 

 the British by ordering the mas- 

 sacre at Cawnpore (q.v.). On the 

 suppression of the Mutiny Nana 

 fled to the Terai jungles of Nepal, 

 where he is reported to have died. 



Nan-chang. Capital of Kiang-si 

 prov., China. It is situated on the 

 Kan river, and was formerly on the 

 Po-yang Lake, which has since 

 receded some 30 m. Nan-chang 

 is now connected by railway 

 with Kiu-kiang on the Yang-tse. 

 Pop. 300,000. 



Nancy. City of France. The 

 capital of the dept. of Meurthe-et- 

 Moselle, it stands on the river 

 Meurthe, 220 m. E. of Paris. It 

 was the capital of Lorraine before 

 the war of 1870. The Place Stanis- 

 las, the principal square, was laid 

 out by Stanislaus Leszcinski, who 

 resided at Nancy, and on his abdi- 



1742, was con- 

 verted on the 

 French Revolu- 

 tion into a temple 

 of reason. The 

 fortifications o f 

 the old town were 

 destroyed by 

 Louis XIV when 

 he annexed Lor- 

 raine. Nancy is 

 famous for its 

 embroideries, and 

 its manufactures 



forts ending at Toul in the N. and 

 Spinal in the S. Castelnau held a 

 front from Pont-a-Mousson along 

 the Grand Couronne to Dombasle, 

 near Luneville. Dubail's army was 

 on his right, prolonging his front 

 to the Vosges. .The German 6th 

 and 7th armies under Prince Ru- 

 pert were flung upon this position. 

 On Aug. 24 the battle began, 

 and on Aug. 25 the Germans 



Nancy, France. 1. Government Palace and its courtyard, formerly the residence of the governors of the province. 

 Z. West front of the cathedral. 3. North-west side of Place Stanislas, the Porte Royale, a triumphal arch built in 

 honour ol Louis XV ; left is the modern Gothic church of S. Epvre. 4. Wrought-iron gate at the corner of Place 



Stanislas, looking towards the cathedral 



cation irom the Polish throne in 

 1736, became duke of Lorraine. 



Of the buildings for which he was 

 responsible, the chief is the church 

 of Notre Dame, in the Italian 

 Renaissa nee 

 style. The ducal 

 palace was built 

 in the 16th cen- 

 tury, and 



Nancy arms 



con- 

 tains a statue of 

 the Duke An- 

 tonio, relics of 

 Napoleon, and 

 many antiquities. 

 A picturesque feature of the town 

 is the Porte de la Graff e, formerly 

 a prison, restored in 1861. 



The founder of the handsome 

 new town was Charles III, who 

 laid the first stone in 1608. The 

 school of forestry is of European 

 fame. The cathedral, completed in 



include cambric, muslin, iron, cot- 

 ton, wool, tobacco. Pop. 120,000. 



Nancy, BATTLE OP. Fought 

 between the French and the Ger 

 mans, Aug. -Sept., 1914. During 

 the battle of Morhange (q.v. ) a 

 German force from Metz tried to 

 cut off the French retreat and 

 attacked two French reserve divi- 

 sions (Gen. L. Durand), holding the 

 Grand Couronne, a great semi-cir- 

 cular ridge, rising in the Mont 

 d'Amance to 1,345 ft., which 

 protects Nancy on the N. Field 

 works had been constructed there, 

 and Durand repulsed the Ger- 

 mans, though they burnt Noineny. 



After their defeat at Morhange, 

 Castelnau and Dubail, with the 

 2nd and 1st French armies, fell 

 back to a strong position covering 

 the Gap of Charmes, which lies be- 

 tween the two systems of French 



reached Rozelieures and ap- 

 proached the outskirts of the forest 

 of Charmes, when Castelnau coun- 

 ter-attacked with the 15th and 

 16th corps. The German command 

 was taken by surprise. Noting 

 hesitation in the German move- 

 ments, Castelnau, at 3 p.m., or- 

 dered all his troops to attack with 

 their entire strength. Rozelieures 

 was recovered, and the German in- 

 fantry began to show signs of ex- 

 haustion. On Aug. 26 the French 

 gained ground in all directions and 

 pushed to within 2 m. of Luneville. 

 On the 27th-28th they made fur- 

 ther gain?, and the Germans passed 

 to the defensive. It was fortunate 

 for them that Fort Manonviller 

 surrendered on the 27th, thus 

 clearing their communications. 



Castelnau, whose forces were 

 greatly exhausted, took up a posi- 



