GRANADA 



GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 



or half the size of Nova Scotia. It is trav- 

 ersed by the Sierra Nevada Mountains, md 

 has fertile plains which are mainly watered 

 by the River Jenil, a tributary of the Guadal- 

 quivir. Its principal agricultural products are 



LOCATION MAP 



The black space in small corner map shows the 

 portion of the entire country that is occupied by 

 Granada, 



wine and oil; fruit is also abundant. Its min- 

 eral resources are lead, zinc, silver, iron and 

 coal. There are some manufactures of textiles 

 and bricks, and a few oil and flour mills. A 

 railroad connects Almeria with Malaga and 

 Madrid. The region was conquered by the 

 Saracens in 811. In 1238 the Moorish kingdom 

 of Granada was established, but the long Span- 

 ish war of Ferdinand and Isabella brought it 

 to an end in 1492 with the capture of Granada. 

 Population in 1910, 503,898. 



Granada, a picturesque city whose crooked, 

 narrow streets and quaint houses of Oriental 

 architecture are surmounted by the towers 

 of the Alhambra, an ancient palace of the 

 Moorish kings. It is divided into two parts 

 by the little River Darro, and lies amidst 

 terraced hills covered with luxuriant vegeta- 

 tion, in the northern part of the province of 

 Granada. Although now a "living ruin," it is 

 still filled with remarkable beauty and dis- 

 tinction, for the gilded cupolas rising above 

 each other, give an imposing effect to the 

 Moorish architecture. The principal buildings, 

 outside of the Alhambra, are the Generalife, 

 the old royal Moorish summer palace, and the 

 cathedral, richly decorated with marble and 

 statues. In the Royal Chapel of this cathedral 

 are the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella, who 

 conquered the independent province of Gra- 

 nada in 1492 after a ten years' struggle, and 

 drove the Moors from their last European 

 stronghold. 



The city, founded by the Moors in the 

 eighth century, reached the height of its power 

 in the thirteenth century, when it became a 

 renowned center of wealth and learning. Dur- 

 ing this period its population was over 400.000. 

 but. after surrendering to Spanish rvlo. tho 



city slowly declined. In 1570 Philip II ordered 

 the remaining Moors deported to inland prov- 

 inces, and forty years later his successor drove 

 them out of Spain. Although there is a mod- 

 ern section of the city, with a university, 

 founded in 1531, a normal school and a school 

 of fine arts, most of the older part of the city 

 is in a stato of decay, and the population is 

 less than 76,000. Sec AUIAMBHA; MOOKS. 



GRAN 'BY, a town in Shefford County, Que- 

 bec, situated in the southern part of the prov- 

 ince, on the Tamaska River, fifty-five miles 

 southeast of Montreal and thirty miles north 

 of the United States boundary line. Trans- 

 portation is provided by the Central Vermont 

 Railroad; an electric line was in course of 

 construction to Montreal in 1916. Granby has 

 a $16,000 postoffice, two colleges, an academy, 

 a convent and a park (twenty acres). The 

 manufacture of rubber goods is the leading 

 industry, more than 700 people being employed 

 in the various plants. Other establishments 

 make tobacco products (these employ 500 peo- 

 ple), cigar boxes, rattan goods, furniture, car- 

 riages and machinery. Granby was settled in 

 1800 and was named in honor of Lord Granby. 

 the commander of the British army in the 

 Seven Years' War. It was incorporated as a 

 town in 1855. The population, chiefly French, 

 was 4,750 in 1911; in 1916, estimated by the 

 Census Bureau, 5,000. J.A.T. 



GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, a 

 patriotic American society whose membership, 

 composed of Northern 

 veteran soldiers, is 

 gradually decreasing 

 as the War of Seces- 

 sion, which was re- 

 sponsible for its 

 founding, recedes 

 into history. It was 

 organized on April 6, 

 1866, a year after the 

 close of the war, at 

 Decatur, 111. The pur- 

 pose of its founders 

 was to strengthen the 

 ties that bound into 

 fellowship the soldiers 

 and sailors who fought 

 to preserve the Union. 

 They sought also to 

 perpetuate the mem- 

 ory of those who sacrificed their lives for the 

 cause, and to give to those who had been left 

 in need by the death of their protectors. 



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