

Till LRD DICTIONARY OF 1 



ing what 



le the gate they tiin 



the 



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v Tatary, the name under 



which, in the Middle Ages, was comprised the 

 whole central belt of Central Asia and Eastern 

 Europe, from the Sea of Japan to the 1 



ng Manchuria, Mongolia. Chinese Turk- 

 etan, Independent Turkestan. the Kalmuck ami 

 iiii steppes, and the old khan Ian, 



ikhan, and Crimea, and even tin- OooBBOk 

 countries; and hence arose a distinction of 

 Tar: European and Asiatic. Hut lat- 



uame Tartary had a much moiv limited 

 Chinese Turkestan 

 Ian. ft took its name from 



i [>!-. Nnlnnmir*. thfl buHdlDg reared; 

 by Solomon as a habitation for Jehovah. David 

 had plann<- divinely for- 



much blood 



PUV, He made great preparations for 



his son and successor, who. he learned from the 



prophet Nathan, was deMined to achieve the 



It \va> built (.n Mount M.'riah, chiefly by 



TVrian workmen, and had massive foundations. 



The stone for its erection was dressed before its 



1. so that the edifice arose noiselessly; 



the floor was of cedar, boarded over with planks 



;ng was of cedar, covered 



^old, as was the whole interior. It was 



modeled inside on the tabernacle, which was 



Jehovah's dwelling while journeyings were con- 



tinually taking place. There was a Holy and ! 



Most Holy Place. 1 he temple was surrounded! 



by an inner court for the priest. There was also 



a Great or Outward Court, called specially the 



"f the Lord's House. This temple was 

 destroyed by the Babylonians during the siege; 



.-alem under Nebuchadnezzar. On the 



:r>m Babylon, a temple, far inferior to! 

 Solomon's was commenced under Zerubbabel, | 

 B. C. 534, and, after a long intermission, was 

 resumed B. and completed B. C. 516, 



under liystaspes. The second temple 



was gradually remo \.-d by Herod, as he pro- 

 ceeded with the building or rebuilding of a temple 

 designed to rival the fir>t rather than the second. 



The work was commenced B. C. 21 or 20; the 



le itself was finished in ;ibout a year and a 



half, the courts in eight years, but the subse- 



operations were carried on so dilatorily 



tnat the Jews reckoned forty-six years as the 



I. In the courts of this 



temple Jesus preached and healed the sick. It 

 caught fire during the siege of Jerusalem under 

 Titus, and was burned to the ground. 



Tennessee. The name is derived from 



"TaimaMee, the Indian appellation of the 



Tennessee River. The fir>t permanent 



settlement was made on the Tei 



about thirty miles from the site of Knox- 



ville. and Fort Loudon built. Indian wars 



lasted till 1761, when the savages were reduced to 



terms. 1 rom 1777 to 1784 the territory formed 



a portion of North Carolina. During the four 



years subsequent, the settlers maintained an 



ii as the State of Franklin, but were 



reunited to North Carolina in 1788. In 1789 



rritory, with that of Kentucky, was organ- 

 i/.ed by the' I'nited States Government, which 

 had received its cession from North Carolina. 

 In 17'.M. a distinct territorial organization was 

 made, and in 179t> Tennessee was admitted as a 

 State, the third under the Federal Constitution. 

 The State > ceded in June, 1861. The principal 

 military events within her limits during the Civil 

 War were the capture of Forts Henry and Donel- 

 son. in February, 1862; the battle of Pittsburg 

 Landing, or Shiloh, in April, 1862; the battle of 

 Murfreesboro, in January, 1863; the battle of 

 Chickamauga, in September, 1863; the battles 

 about Chattanooga, and the battles of Franklin 

 and Nashville, in November, 1864. State was 

 readmitted in 1866. The Centenary of the 

 State was celebrated by an Exposition at Nash- 

 ville in 1897. In 1907 the National Rivers and 

 Harbors Convention met at Memphis and was 

 attended by the President. 



Teutones, a tribe of Germany, which, 

 with the Cimbri, invaded Gaul in B. C. 1 13. In 

 B. C. 102, they were defeated with great slaughter 

 near Aquae Sextise (Aix in the department of 

 Bouches du Rhone) by the Roman general Mari- 

 us. A tribe of the same name is mentioned by 

 Pliny and others as inhabiting a district north of 

 the Elbe, which appears to have been the original 

 settlement of the Teutones before their invasion 

 of Gaul. 



Teutonic Knights, a military religious 

 order of knights, established toward the close of 

 the Twelfth Century, in imitation of the Templars 

 and Hospitallers. It was composed chiefly of 

 Teutons or Germans who marched to the Holy 

 Land in the Crusades, and was established in 

 that country for charitable purposes. In the 

 Thirteenth Century they acquired Poland and 

 Prussia, and they long held sway over a great 

 extent of territory in this part of Europe. The 

 order began to decline in the Fifteenth Century, 

 and was finally abolished by Napoleon in 1809. 



Texas. The first attempt at colonization 

 known to history was made by La Salle, who 

 sailed into Matagorda Bay, and erected Fort St. 

 Louis on the Lavaca in 1685. Four years later 

 the French were ousted by the Spaniards. The 

 two nationalities contested the dominion of the 

 country with bitterness, though the right of pos- 

 session was for the most part with the Spaniards. 

 In 1715, the name of New Philippines was given 

 to the country, and the Marquis de Aguayo was 

 made governor-general, under whose rule Span- 

 ish settlements were rapidly multiplied. In 

 1762-63, France settled the feud by her cession 

 of the Louisiana territory to Spain. The reces- 

 sion of Louisiana to France in 1803, and the sale 

 by the latter power to the United States, still 

 left the boundary of the old Spanish possessions 

 west of Louisiana open to controversy, as there 

 had previously been no well-defined line. In 1806, 

 the territory between the Sabine and Arroya 

 Honda was established as a neutral ground by 

 the Spanish and American generals commanding 

 on the frontier. In the absence of any national 

 settlement, a series of revolutionary intrigues 

 began with the projected movement of Aaron 

 Burr in 1806. Filibustering expeditions into 

 Texas from the United States led to several 

 severe battles, and it was not till 1819 that the 



