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See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
LEE, See also:SIDNEY (1859– ) , See also:English See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:London on the 5th of See also:December 1859. He was educated at the See also:City of London school, and at Balliol. See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he graduated in See also:modern See also:history in 1882. In the next See also:year he became assistant-editor of the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography. In 1890 he was made See also:joint-editor, and on the retirement of See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen in 1891 succeeded him as editor. He was himself a voluminous contributor to the See also:work, See also:writing some Soo articles, mainly on Elizabethan authors or statesmen. While he was still at Balliol he wrote two articles on Shakespearian questions, which were printed in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, and in 1884 he published a See also:book on See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon. His See also:article on See also:Shakespeare in the fifty-first See also:volume (1897) of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his See also:Life of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Shakespeare (1898), which reached its fifth edition in 1905. Mr Lee edited in 1902 the Oxford facsimile edition of the first See also:folio of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, followed in 1902 and 1904 by supplementary volumes giving details of extant copies, and in 1906 by a See also:complete edition of
Lee and J. E. B. See also:Stuart, all of whom became See also:general See also:officers in the See also:Civil See also:War. In 1855 he was appointed as lieut.-See also:colonel to the 2nd See also:Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Sidney See also:Johnston, with whom he served against the See also:Indians of the See also:Texas border. In 18J9, while at See also:Arlington on leave, he was summoned to command the See also:United States troops sent to See also:deal with the See also:John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown See also:raid on Harper's See also:Ferry. In See also:March 1861 he was made colonel of the 1st U.S. Cavalry; but his career in the old See also:army ended with the See also:secession of See also:Virginia in the following See also:month. Lee was strongly averse to secession, but See also:felt obliged to conform to the See also:action of his own See also:state. The Federal authorities offered Lee the command of the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field army about to invade the See also:South, which he refused. Resigning his See also:commission, he made his way to See also:Richmond and was at once made a See also:major-general in the Virginian forces. A few See also:weeks later he became a brigadier-general (then the highest See also:rank) in the Confederate service.
The military operations with which the See also:great Civil War opened in 1861 were directed by See also:President See also:Davis and General Lee. Lee was personally in See also:charge of the unsuccessful See also:West Virginian operations in the autumn, and, having been made a full general on the 31st of See also:August, during the See also:winter he devoted his experience as an engineer to the fortification and general See also:defence of the See also:Atlantic See also:coast. Thence, when the well-drilled Army of the See also:Potomac was about to descend upon Richmond, he was hurriedly recalled to Richmond. General Johnston was wounded at the See also:battle of See also:Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) on the 31st of May 1862, and General See also:Robert E. Lee was assigned to the command of the famous Army of See also:Northern Virginia which for the next three years " carried the See also:rebellion on its bayonets." Little can be said of Lee's career as a See also:commander-in-See also:chief that is not an integral See also:part of the history of the Civil War. His first success was the " Seven Days' Battle " (q.v.) in which he stopped McClellan's advance; this was quickly followed up by the crushing defeat of the Federal army under See also:Pope, the invasion of See also:Maryland and the sanguinary and indecisive battle of the See also:Antietam (q.v.). The year ended with another great victory at Fredericksburg (q v.) See also:Chancellorsville (see See also:WILDERNESS), won against odds of two to one, and the great three days' battle of See also:Gettysburg (q.v.), where for the first 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 See also:fortune turned decisively against the Confederates, were the chief events of 1863. In the autumn Lee fought a war of manoeuvre against General See also:Meade. The tremendous struggle of 1864 between Lee 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 included the battles of the Wilderness (q.v.), See also:Spottsylvania, See also:North See also:Anna, See also:Cold Harbor and the See also:long See also:siege of See also:Petersburg (q.v.), in which, almost invariably, Lee was locally successful. But the steady pressure of his unrelenting opponent slowly wore down his strength. At last with not more than one man to oppose to Grant's three he was compelled to break out of his Petersburg lines (See also:April 1865). A See also:series of heavy combats revealed his purpose, and Grant pursued the dwindling remnants of. Lee's army to the westward. Headed off by the Federal cavalry, and pressed closely in See also:rear by Grant's See also:main See also:body, General Lee had no alternative but to surrender. At Appomattox See also:Court See also:House, on the 9th of April, the career of the Army of Northern Virginia came to an end. Lee's farewell 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 was issued on the following See also:day, and within a few weeks the Confederacy was at an end. For a few months Lee lived quietly in Powhatan See also:county, making his formal submission to the Federal authorities and urging on his own See also:people See also:acceptance of the new conditions. In August he was offered, and accepted, the See also:presidency of Washing-ton College, See also:Lexington (now See also:Washington and Lee University), a See also:post which he occupied until his See also:death on the 12th of See also:October 187o He was buried in the college grounds.
See also:Fur the events of Lee's military career briefly indicated in this See also:notice the reader is referred to the articles See also:AMERICAN C1v11, WAR, &c. By his achievements he won a high See also:place amongst the great generals of history. Though hampered by lack of materials and by See also:political necessities, his See also:strategy was daring always, and he never hesitated to take the gravest risks. On the field of battle he was as energetic in attack as he was See also:constant in defence, and his See also:personal See also:influence over the men
Shakespeare's See also:Works. Besides See also:editions of English See also:classics his works include a Life of See also:Queen See also:Victoria (1902), Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth See also:Century (1904), based on his See also:Lowell See also:Institute lectures at See also:Boston, See also:Mass., in 1903, and Shakespeare and the Modern See also:Stage (1996).
End of Article: LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
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