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DONEGAL , a small seaport and See also:market See also:town of Co. Donegal, See also:Ireland (not, as its name would suggest, the See also:county town, which is See also:Lifford), in the See also:south See also:parliamentary See also:division, at the See also:head of Donegal See also:Bay, and the mouth of the See also:river Eask, on the Donegal railway. Pop. (1901) 1214. Its See also:trade in agricultural produce is hampered by the unsatisfactory See also:condition of its See also:harbour, the approach to which is beset with shoals. Here are the ruins of a See also:fine Jacobean See also:castle, occupying the site of a fortress of the O'Donnells of See also:Tyrconnell, but built by See also:Sir See also:Basil See also:Brooke in 161o. There are also considerable remains of a Franciscan monastery, founded in 1474 by one of the O'Donnells, and here were compiled the famous " See also:Annals of the Four Masters," a See also:record of Irish See also:history completed in 1636 by one See also:Michael O'Clery and his coadjutors. There is a chalybeate well near the town, and 71- M. S., at Bailintra, a small stream forms a See also:series of See also:limestone caverns known as the Pullins. Donegal received a See also:charter from See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., and returned two members to the Irish See also:parliament. The name is said to signify the " fortress of the foreigners," and to allude to agarrison under See also:General See also:Floyd into See also:Donelson, and See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant was at first outnumbered; though continually reinforced, the latter had at no 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 more than three men to the Confederates' two. The troops of both sides were untrained but eager.
On the 12th and 13th of See also:February 1862 the See also:Union divisions, skirmishing heavily, took up their positions investing the fort, and on the 14th See also:Foote's gunboats attacked the See also:water batteries. The latter received a severe repulse, Foote himself being amongst the wounded, and soon afterwards the Confederates determined to cut their way through Grant's lines. On the 15th General See also:Pillow attacked the Federal division of See also:McClernand and drove it off the See also:Nashville road; having done this, however, he halted, and even retired. Grant ordered General C. F. See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's division to See also:assault a See also:part of the lines which had been denuded of its defenders in 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 to reinforce Pillow. Smith personally led his See also:young See also:volunteers in the See also:charge and carried all before him. The Confederates returning from the sortie were quite unable to shake his hold on the captured See also:works, and, Grant having reinforced McClernand with Lew See also:Wallace's division, these two generals reoccupied the lost position on the Nashville road. On the 16th, the two See also:senior Confederate generals Floyd and Pillow having escaped by steamer, the See also:infantry See also:left in the fort under General S. B. See also:Buckner surrendered unconditionally. The Confederate See also:cavalry under See also:Colonel See also:Forrest made its See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape by road. The prisoners numbered about 15,000 out of an See also:original See also:total of 18,000.
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