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Da broke out in 1914 Bavaria was 



prompt to i junta of troops, and the 



. under Pnncc Leopold, 



: of the kni'j. was tlie first to enter War- 



>a w when : : fell to the Germans in 1915. 



See GH:M \\v. O.B. 



BAYARD, ba yar',PiKKi;i: nr TKKKAII, (known 



er Haijard) (M7r.-l.VJl '. a French 



.:\alrous virtues won him the 



;" "the knight without fear and above 



h." 1'nlike most characters of medieval 



ad, lie satieties the standards of 



.Timl modern historian by reason of 



. his generosity and his unblemished 



honor. 



He served under the French kings Charles 

 VIII. Louis XII and Francis I, and under all 

 of them achieved wonderful successes over the 

 Italians, Spaniards and Knglish. One of his 

 \8 the defense of a 

 at (larigliano, in 1503, against the 

 assaults of 200 Spaniards. The brilliant victory 

 at Marignano, 1515, was won largely through 

 his efforts, and Francis I bowed before him 

 after the victory to receive knighthood from 

 him. 



BAYARD, by' erd, THOMAS FRANCIS (1828- 

 1898), an American statesman, of a family dis- 

 tinguished for ability. His grandfather, James 

 D Bayard (1767-1815), and his father, of 

 me name (1799-1880), were United States 

 n t and young Bayard was brought up in 

 the best traditions of the Democratic party, to 

 which they belonged. He was born at Wil- 

 mington. Del., studied law with his father, and 

 while still ;i young man acquired a reputation 

 as an attorney. With his father, he fipposed 

 the War of Secession, feeling that though the 

 South did wrong to secede, the North :\\-n did 

 in trying to prevent secession by force, 

 to the Senate in 1869, to succeed his 

 father, he I leader among the Demo- 



crats, and was several times mentioned as a 

 possible candidate for the Presidency. Pres- 

 ident Cleveland made him Secretary of State 

 in 1885, and IK- sem-d with credit during the 

 Benim S< a trouble and other crises. In 1893 

 .la<s:idor to Great Biitain. and 

 was the lirst to bi-ar that title, all our former 

 there having borne the title of 

 mini.-ter plenipotentiary and envoy extraor- 

 dinary. The House of Representatives i 

 a vote of censure against him for certain criti- 

 cisms of his home country while he held this 

 post, but he is regarded as among the very 

 able statesmen the country has produced. 



BAY CITY, Mini., the county seat of Bay 

 County, is in the eastern part of the state at 

 the lu-ad of navigation on the Saginaw Hiver, 

 four miles from the south shore of Saginaw 

 Bay. Detroit is 108 miles southeast; Saginaw 

 is thirteen miles south. Bay City is served by 

 the Michigan Central, Pere Mat-queue, Grand 

 Trunk, Detroit & Mackinac and the Detroit, 

 Bay City & Western railroads, and by electric. 

 line to Saginaw. Steamers ply between this 

 and other lake ports. In 1910 the population 

 was 45,166; in 1914 it was 47,047. 



Bay City and West Bay City, on opposite 

 sides of the river, which is here spanned by 

 several bridges, were consolidated in 1905. The 

 area of the city is about ten square mil' 

 has six public parks, a Federal building, a city 

 hall, erected at a cost of $200,000, a public 

 library and the Bay County Bar Library, a state 

 armory and a Masonic Temple. The industries 

 include ship and yacht building, lumber and 

 planing mills, box factories and other large 

 wood-working plants, a chicory plant, and 

 manufactories of mill supplies and machinery, 

 salt, sugar, alcohol and chemicals. The im- 

 portance of coal mining and shipping is increas- 

 ing and there is an extensive trade in lumber 

 and other manufactured products. 



Bay City was settled in 1836, was incorpo- 

 rated as a village in 1859 and became a city 

 in 1865. 



BAYEUX TAPESTRY, bayu' tap'<*tri, 

 the most remarkable and costly embroidery re- 

 maining from early medieval times, picturing 

 in a series of scenes the life of Harold and the 

 invasion and conqtiest of England by William 



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the Conqueror. Tradition asserts that it is the 

 work of the latter's wife, Matilda, and that it 

 was made for Odo, bishop of Bayeux, as a 

 decorative hanging for his cathedral, where it 

 was found. It is 230 feet long and about 

 twenty inches high, and contains 1,512 figures 

 with inscriptions in Latin, worked in red, green, 



