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See also:COLLETTA, PIETRO (1775-1831) , Neapolitan See also:general and historian, entered the Neapolitan See also:artillery in 1796 and took See also:part in the See also:campaign against the See also:French in 1798. On the entry of the French into See also:Naples and the See also:establishment of the Parthenopean See also:republic (1799) he adhered to the new See also:government, and when the See also:Bourbon See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Ferdinand IV. (q.v.) reconquered the See also:city Colletta was thrown into See also:prison and only escaped the See also:death See also:penalty by means of judiciously administered bribes. Turned out of the See also:army he became a See also:civil engineer, but when the Bourbons were expelled a second See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1806 and See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte seized the See also:throne of Naples, he was reinstated in his See also:rank and served in the expedition against the brigands and rebels of See also:Calabria. In 1812 he was promoted general, and made director of roads and See also:bridges. He served under See also:Joachim See also:Murat and fought the Austrians on the Panaro in 1815. On the restoration of Ferdinand Colletta was permitted to retain his rank in the army, and given command of the See also:Salerno See also:division. At the out-break of the revolution of 1820 the king called him to his See also:councils, and when the constitution had been granted Colletta was sent to put down the separatist rising in See also:Sicily, which he did with See also:great severity. He fought in the constitutionalist army against the Austrians at See also:Rieti (7th of See also:March 1821), and on the re-establishment of See also:autocracy he was arrested and imprisoned for three months by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:prince of See also:Canosa, the See also:chief of See also:police, his particular enemy. He would have been executed had not the Austrians intervened in his favour, and he was exiled instead to Brinn in See also:Moravia; in 1823 he was permitted to See also:settle in See also:Florence, where he spent the See also:rest of his days engaged on his See also:Scoria del reame di Napoli. He died in 1831. His See also:history (1st ed., Capolago, 1834), which deals with the reigns of See also:Charles III. and Ferdinand IV. (1734-1825), is still the See also:standard See also:work for that See also:period; but its value is somewhat diminished by the author's bitterness against his opponents and the fact that he does not give See also:chapter and See also:verse for his statements, many of which are based on his recollection of documents seen, but not available at the time of See also:writing. Still, having been an actor in many of the events recorded, he is on the whole accurate and trustworthy.
See Gino See also:Capponi's memoir of him published in the Storia del reame di Napoli (2nd ed., Florence, 1848). (L.
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