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LAPORTE, ROLAND (1675-1704)

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LAPORTE, See also:ROLAND (1675-1704) , Camisard See also:leader, better known as " Roland," was See also:born at Mas Soubeyran (See also:Gard) in a cottage which has become the See also:property of the Societe de 1'Histoire du Protestantisme See also:francais, and which contains See also:relics of the See also:hero. He was a See also:nephew of Laporte, the Camisard leader who was hunted down and shot in See also:October 1702, and he himself became the leader of a See also:band of a thousand men which he formed into a disciplined See also:army with magazines, arsenals and hospitals. For daring in See also:action and rapidity of See also:movement he was second only to See also:Cavalier. These two leaders in 1702 secured entrance to the See also:town of Sauve under the pretence of being royal See also:officers, burnt the See also:church and carried off provisions and See also:ammunition for their forces. Roland, who called himself " See also:general of the See also:children of See also:God," terrorized the See also:country between See also:Nimes and See also:Alais, burning churches and houses, and slaying those suspected of hostility against the See also:Huguenots, though without personally taking any See also:part of the spoil. Cavalier was already in negotiation with See also:Marshal See also:Villars when Roland cut to pieces a See also:Catholic See also:regiment at Fontmorte in May 1704. He refused to ]ay down his arms without definite assurance of the restoration of the privileges accorded by the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes. Villars then sought to negotiate, offering Roland the command of a regiment on See also:foreign service and See also:liberty of See also:conscience, though not the See also:free exercise of their See also:religion, for his co-religionists. This parley had no results, but Roland was betrayed to his enemies, and on the 14th of See also:August 1704 was shot while defending himself against his captors. The five officers who were with him surrendered, and were broken on the See also:wheel at Nimes. Roland's See also:death put an end to the effective resistance of the Cevenols. See A.

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Court, Histoire See also:des troubles des See also:Cevennes (Villefranche, 176o) ; H. M. See also:Baird, The Huguenots and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (2 vols., See also:London, 1895), and other literature dealing with the See also:Camisards. LA See also:PORTE, a See also:city and the See also:county seat of La Porte county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., 12 M. S. of See also:Lake See also:Michigan and about 6o m. S.E. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (189o) 7126; (1900) 7113 (1403 foreign-born); (191o) 10,525. It is served by the Lake See also:Erie & Western, the Lake See also:Shore & Michigan See also:Southern, the Pere See also:Marquette, the Chicago, See also:South See also:Bend & See also:Northern Indiana (electric), and the Chicago-New See also:York Electric See also:Air See also:Line See also:railways. La Porte lies in the midst of a fertile agricultural region, and the shipment of See also:farm and See also:orchard products is one of its See also:chief See also:industries. There are also numerous manufactures. La Porte's situation in the See also:heart of a region of beautiful lakes (including Clear, See also:Pine and See also:Stone lakes) has given it a considerable reputation as a summer resort.

The lakes furnish a large See also:

supply of clear See also:ice, which is shipped to the Chicago markets. La Porte was settled in 1830, laid out in 1833, incorporated as a town in 1835, and first chartered as a city in 1852.

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