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Marengo (Bonaparte defeats Austrians).
Hochstadt (Moreau defeats Austrians)
Hohenlinden (ditto)..

Aboukir (French defeated)..

Copenhagen (bombarded by Nelson).

Ahmednuggur (Wellesley victorinus).

Assiye (Wellesley's first great victory).
Argaum (Wellesley victor)...
Furruckabad (Lake defeats Holkar).
Bhurtpore (taken by Lake)...
Elchingen (Ney defeats Austrians)..
Ulm surrenders (Ney defeats Austrians).
Trafalgar, n. (Nelson destroys French fleet;
Austerlitz (Napoleon defeats Austrians and
Buenos Ayres (taken by Popham)..
Maida (Stuart defeats French).
Saalfeld (French defeat Prussians).
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Beylan (Ibrahim defeats Turks).
Konieh (Egyptians defeat Turks).
Antwerp (citadel taken by Allies)..
Hernani (Carlists defeated)..
St. Sebastian (ditto)..

Bilbao (siege raised; British Legion).
Hernani (Carlists repulsed)..

Irun (British Legion defeats Carlists).
Valentia (Carlists attacked)...

Herera (Don Carlos defeats Buereno)..
Constantina, Algiers (taken by French).
St. Eustace (Canadian rebels defeated)...
Peñacerrada (Carlists defeated)....
Prescott (Canadian rebels defeated).
Aden (taken)...

Ghiznee (taken by Keane).

Sidon (taken by Napier)...

Beyrout (Allies defeat Egyptians).
AFGHAN WAR, see India.

Acre (stormed by Allies).

Kotriah, Scinde (English victors)..
Chuen pe (English victors)..

Canton (English take Bogue forts).

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(For numerous small conflicts and skirmishes, see FrancoPrussian War, Herzegovina, Russo-Turkish Wars, Spain, Sumatra, Turkey, United States, Kafirs, Egypt, Zululand, Basutoland, Chili, etc.; and, for details of important en gagements, see separate articles.) Batum, see Batoum. Baugé, see Anjou.

Bautzen, a town in Saxony, near which desperate battles were fought 20, 21, and 22 May, 1813, between the French, commanded by Napoleon, and the allies under the emperor of Russia and the king of Prussia. The struggle commenced on the 19th, with a contest on the outposts, which cost each army a loss of above 2000 men. On the 20th (at Bautzen) the French were more successful; and on the 21st (at Wurschen) the allies were compelled to retire; but Napoleon obtained no permanent advantage. Duroc was killed at Reichenbach by a cannon-ball, on 22 May

The king announces his intention of joining Prussia in the war with France... ....about 20 July, 1870 The Bavarian contingent highly distinguishes itself in the war; Otho, duke of Bavaria, killed near Beglie,

27 Jan. 1871 President of council, and foreign minister, A. de Pfretzschner..... ..22 Aug.

(See Franco-Prussian War.)

The king, in a letter to the king of Saxony, proposes that the king of Prussia should be made emperor of Germany. .about 5 Dec. Dr. Döllinger excommunicated for opposing papal infal libility, 18 April; elected rector of the university of Munich ..29 July, Government protests against papal infallibility (see Germany). 27 Sept. Old Catholic" church opened at Munich..end of Sept. The king charges Von Gasser to form an Ultramontane ministry, opposed to German unity, 3 Sept.; he fails,

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1071. Guelf I., an illustrious warrior.
1101. Guelf II.; son; married the countess Matilda, 1089.
1120. Henry the Black; brother.

1126. Henry the Proud; son. (He competed with Conrad of Hohenstaufen for the empire, failed, and was deprived of Bavaria.)

1138. Leopold, margrave of Austria; died 1142. 1142. Henry of Austria; brother; died 1177. 1154. Henry the Lion (son of Henry the Proud), ancestor of the Brunswick family, restored by the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, but expelled by him 1180 (see Brunswick); died 1195.

1180. Otho, count of Wittelsbach, made duke; died 1183. 1183. Louis; son.

1231. Otho II., the Illustrious; son; gained the palatinate; assassinated 1231.

1253. Louis II., the Severe; son; died 1294.

1294. Louis III.; son (without the palatinate) emperor; died 1347.

1347. Stephen I.; son; died 1375. 1375. John; brother; died 1397. 1397. Ernest; brother; died 1438. 1438. Albert I.; son; died 1460.

1460. John II. and Sigismund; sons; resigned to 1465. Albert II.; brother; died 1508.

1508. William I.; son; opposed the Reformation, 1522; died

1550.

1550. Albert III.; son; died 1573.

1579. William II.; son; abdicated 1596; died 1626.

1596.

1651. 1679.

1726.

1745.

1778.

1799.

Bavaria (part of ancient Noricum and Vindelicia), a kingdom in S. Germany, conquered from the Celtic Gauls (Boii) by the Franks between 630 and 660. The country was afterwards governed by dukes subject to 1805. the French monarchs. Tasillon II. was deposed by Charlemagne, who established margraves in 788. The margrave Leopold, 895, father of Arnulph the Bad, is styled the first duke. Bavaria was made a constitutional monarchy, 26 May, 1818. It joined the German empire, 22 Nov. 1870. Population, 1 Dec. 1871, 4,863,450; Dec. 1875, 5,022,390; see Munich.

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1848.

1864.

Maximilian the Great; son; the first ELECTOR of Bavaria, 25 Feb. 1623; the palatinate restored, 1648; died 27 Sept. 1651.

Ferdinand Mary; died 26 May, 1679. Maximilian Emanuel; son; allies with France, 1702; defeated at Blenheim, 1704; restored to his dominions, 1714; died 26 Feb. 1726.

Charles Albert; son; elected emperor, 1742; defeated, 1744; died 20 Jan. 1745.

Maximilian Joseph I.; son; as elector; died 30 Dec. 1777; end of younger line of Wittelsbach.

Charles Theodore (the elector palatine of the Rhine since 1743). The French take Munich; he treats with them, 1796; died 1799.

Maximilian Joseph II.; elector; territories changed by treaty of Luneville, 1801; enlarged when made king, by treaty of Presburg, Dec. 1805.

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Heir: his brother Otho, born 27 April, 1848.

Baveno, a village of Piedmont, on the Lago Maggiore. At a villa here queen Victoria resided from 28 March to 23 April, 1879.

The abdication of Charles Louis was mainly caused by his attachment to an intriguing woman, known throughout Europe by the assumed name of Lola Montez; who, in the end, was expelled the kingdom for her interference in state affairs, and afterwards led a wandering life. She delivered lectures in London in 1859; thence proceeded to the United States; and died at New York, 17 Jan. 1861.

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