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HAM , a small See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Somme, 36 m. E.S.E. of See also:Amiens on the Northern railway between that See also:city and See also:Laon. Pop. (r906), 2957. It stands on the Somme in a marshy See also:district where See also:market-gardening is carried on. From the 9th See also:century onwards it appears as the seat of a lordship which, after the extinction of its hereditary See also:line, passed in See also:succession to the houses of See also:Coucy, See also:Enghien, Luxembourg, See also:Rohan, See also:Vendome and See also:Navarre, and was finally See also:united to the See also:French See also:crown on the See also:accession of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. Notre-See also:Dame, the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of an See also:abbey of canons See also:regular of St Augustin, See also:dates from the 12th and 13th centuries, but in 176o all the inflammable portions of the See also:building were destroyed by a conflagration caused by See also:lightning, and a See also:process of restoration was subsequently carried out. Of See also:special See also:note are the bas-reliefs of the See also:nave and See also:choir, executed in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the See also:crypt of the r 2th century, which contains the sepulchral See also:effigies of See also:Odo IV. of Ham and his wife See also:Isabella of See also:Bethencourt. The See also:castle, founded before the. Toth century, was rebuilt See also:early in the 13th, and extended in the 14th; its See also:present See also:appearance is mainly due to the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis of Luxembourg, See also:count of St Pol, who between 1436 and 1470 not only furnished it with outworks, but gave such a thickness to the towers and curtains, and more especially to the See also:great See also:tower or See also:donjon which still bears his See also:motto Mon Myezdx, that the great engineer and architect See also:Viollet-le-Duc considered them, even in the 19th century, capable of resisting See also:artillery. It forms a rectangle 395 ft. See also:long by 263 ft. broad, with a See also:round tower at each See also:angle and two square towers protecting the curtains. The eastern and western sides are each defended by a demi-lune. The Constable's Tower, for so the great tower is usually called in memory of St Pol, has a height of about too ft., and the thickness of the walls is 36 ft.; the interior is occupied by three large hexagonal See also:chambers in as many stories. The castle of Ham, which now serves as See also:barracks, has frequently been used as a See also:state See also:prison both in See also:ancient and See also:modern times, and the See also:list of those who have sojourned there is an interesting one, including as it does See also:Joan of Arc, Louis of See also:Bourbon, the ministers of See also:Charles X., Louis See also:Napoleon, and Generals See also:Cavaignac and See also:Lamoriciere. Louis Napoleon was there for six years, and at last' effected his 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 in the disguise of a workman. During 1870–1871 Ham was several times captured and recaptured by the belligerents. A statue commemorates the See also:birth in the town of See also:General See also:Foy
(1775–1825).
See J. G. Cappot, Le See also:Chateau de Ham (See also:Paris, 1842) ; and Ch. Gomart, Ham, son chateau et ses prisonniers (Ham, 1864),
' A. Jeremias, Das A.T. See also:im Lichte See also:des See also:alien Orients, p. 145, holds that it represents the situation in the 8th century B.c.
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