GREAT BRITAIN 



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GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR 



Boston Tea Party 

 Brandywine, Battle of 



the 



Brunswick, Family of 

 Bunker Hill, Battle of 

 Chartism 



Clayton-Bulwer Treaty 

 Continental System 

 Corn Laws 

 East India Company 

 Fifteen Decisive Battles 

 French and Indian Wars 



Germantown, Battle of 



Ghent 



Guilford, Battle of 



Hay-Pauncefote Treaty 

 Intolerable Acts, Five 



Jay Treaty 



Leipzig, Battles of 



London Company 



Long Island, Battle of 



Louisburg Sieges of 



Lundy's Lane, Battle of 



Navigation Acts 



Orders in Council 



Paris, Treaties of 



Powers, The Great 

 Quebec, Battle of 

 Quebec Act 

 Quebec Resolutions 

 Queenstown Heights, 



Battle of 

 Revolutionary War in 



America 

 Rotten Boroughs 

 Saratoga, Battles of 

 Sepoy Rebellion 

 South African War 

 South Sea Company 

 Stamp Act 

 Test Acts 

 Thames River, Battle 



of the 

 Trafalgar 

 Trent Affair, The 

 Trenton, Battle of 

 War of 1812 

 War of the Nations 

 Waterloo, Battle of 

 Webster- Ashburton 



Treaty 



LITERATURE 



See ENGLISH LITERATURE. 



The biographies of eminent men contain much 

 historical matter. The rulers are listed in the 

 article ENGLAND, and the soldiers and statesmen 

 of the early period are given in the Related Sub- 

 jects index under that article. 



SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 



Abercrombie, James 

 Aberdeen, Earl of 

 Andre, John 

 Argyll, Dukes of 

 Asquith, Herbert Henry 

 Baden-Powell, Robert 



S. S. 



Balfour, Arthur James 

 Braddock, Edward 

 Bright, John 

 Bryce, James 

 Burgoyne, John 

 Burke, Edmund 

 Carleton, Sir Guy 

 Chamberlain, Joseph 

 Chesterfield, Earl of 

 Churchill, Winston L. S. 

 Clinton, Sir Henry 

 Clive, Robert 

 Cobden, Richard 

 Cornwallis, Charles 

 Curzon, Lord 

 Dufferin and Ava, 



Marquis of 

 Fox, Charles James 

 Gage, Thomas 

 George, David Lloyd 

 Gladstone, William E. 

 Gordon, Charles George 

 Grey, Earl 

 Grey, Sir Edward 

 Harcourt, Sir William 



George 

 Hastings, Warren 



Haveloek, Sir Henry 

 Howe, Sir William and 



Richard 



Hutchinson, Thomas 

 Jameson, Leander Starr 

 Kitchener, Earl 

 Lansdowne, Lord 

 Lytton, Edward Robert 



Bulwer 

 Macaulay, Thomas 



Bablngton 



Marlborough, Duke of 

 Milner, Alfred 

 Monck, Lord Charles 

 Moore, Sir John 

 Morley, John 

 North, Lord 

 Outram, Sir James 

 Pakenham, Sir Edward 



M. 



Palmerston, Viscount 

 Pauncefote, Julian, 



Lord 



Peel, Sir Robert 

 Pitt, William 

 Redmond, John Edward 

 Rhodes, Cecil John" 

 Roberts, Earl 

 Rosebery, Archibald 



P.P. 



Russell, John 

 Saint Leger, Barry 

 Salisbury, Marquis of 

 Shaftesbury, Earl of 



Walpole, Horace Wolfe, James 



Wellington, Duke of Wolseley, Garnet Joseph 

 Wilberforce, William 



ISLANDS 

 See classified list under article ISLAND. 



PRODUCTS 



See lists under ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, 

 WALES. 



RIVERS 



See lists under ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, 

 WALES. 



GREAT DANE, the name given to a breed 

 of large dogs which are noted for their great 

 strength, agility and handsome appearance. 

 The breed originated in Denmark, from which 

 fact the name is derived; they were formerly 

 used there for 

 hunting boars 

 and deer. Great 

 Danes vary 

 greatly in color, 

 the most highly- 

 prized usually 

 being fawn or 

 brindled, but a 

 dark bluish -gray 

 is popular. They 



are usually about 



THE GREAT DANE 



the same size as mastiffs, often weighing 100 

 pounds, and make affectionate and faithful 

 companions. 



GREATER ANTILLES, antiL'eez. See AN- 

 TILLES. 



GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR. The 

 greatest common divisor (G. C. D.) of sev- 

 eral numbers is the largest number which will 

 exactly divide each of them; for example, 14 

 .is the G. C. D. of 42, 70 and 98; 3 is the G. 

 C. D. of 15, 24 and 21. 



The greatest common divisor is also called 

 the highest common factor. (See FACTORING 

 and study it in connection with this subject.) 



8X13 = 104 

 5X13= 65 

 3X13= 39 

 7X13= 91 



104-13 = 8 

 65-13 = 5 

 39-13 = 3 

 91 13 = 7 



(a) We see here how 1Q4, 65, 39 and 91 are 

 built up, 13 being the factor common to all ; 

 being, moreover, the only factor common to all, 

 it is the highest common factor. 



(b) Since 13 is the largest factor common 

 to these numbers, it is the largest number 

 that will divide each of them. 



(c) The largest common factor that goes to 

 make up several numbers is the largest divisor 

 that is found in each of the numbers. 



