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PIQUA , a See also:city of See also:Miami See also:county; See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Miami See also:River and the Miami & See also:Erie See also:Canal, 73 M. W. by N. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (1890), 9090; (1900), 12,172, af whom 901 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 487 were negroes; (1910 See also:census), 13,388. It is served by the See also:Pittsburg, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St 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, and the Cincinnati, See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton & See also:Dayton See also:railways, and by inter-See also:urban electric lines to See also:Lima, Dayton and See also:Covington. It has a See also:park, a public library and a public See also:hospital. There are quarries of See also:blue See also:limestone in the vicinity. The city has various manufactures, the factory products being valued in 1905 at $4,035,706. The See also:municipality owns and operates its waterworks. On or near the site of Piqua was one of the See also:principal villages of the See also:Chillicothe See also:division of the See also:Shawnee tribe; the See also:village also was called Chillicothe. It was destroyed by See also:George See also:Rogers See also:Clark in 1782. A See also:town was laid out here in 1809 under the name of See also:Washington, and the See also:present name, that of another division of the Shawnee tribe, was substituted in 1823. Piqua was chartered as a city in 1846. During the See also:French and See also:Indian See also:War, in 1763, a See also:battle was fought in this vicinity chiefly between the Miamis, Wyandots, Ottawas and other Indian See also:allies of the French, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Cherokees, See also:Catawbas and other Indian allies of the See also:English, the English allies making an unsuccessful See also:attempt to drive the French allies from their fortified position, Fort Piqua.
See 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 See also:Howe, See also:Historical Collections of Ohio (Columbus, 1891).
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