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See also:ROPES, See also:JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899) , See also:American military historian and lawyer, was See also:born at St See also:Petersburg on the 28th of See also:April 1836, the son of a leading See also:merchant of See also:Boston who was engaged in business in See also:Russia. At the See also:age of fourteen, his See also:family having meantime returned to See also:Massachusetts, he See also:developed an See also:affection of the spine which eventually became a permanent deformity. His courage and See also:energy, however, did not allow him to yield to his affliction. He entered Harvard in 1853, and graduated in 1857. His interests as a See also:young See also:man were chiefly religious, legal and See also:historical, and these remained with him throughout See also:life, his career as a lawyer being conspicuous and successful. But it was the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War in 1861 which fixed his See also:attention principally on military See also:history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and See also:personal help and friend-See also:ship the See also:officers and men of the loth Massachusetts See also:regiment, in which his See also:brother, 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 Ropes, served up to his See also:death at See also:Gettysburg, and after the war he devoted himself to the collection and elucidation of all obtainable See also:evidence as to its incidents and events. In this See also:work his clear and unprejudiced legal mind enabled him to sift the truth from the innumerable public and private controversies, and the See also:ill-informed See also:allotment of praise and blame by the popular historians and biographers. The See also:focus of his work was the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, which he founded in 1876. The work of this society was the collection and discussion of evidence See also:relating to the See also:great conflict. Although practically every member of this society except himself had fought through the war, and nany, such as See also:Hancock and W. 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, were See also:general officersof great distinction, it was from first to last maintained and guided by Ropes, who presented to it his military library and his collection of prints and medals. He died at Boston on the 28th of See also:October 1899. His See also:principal work is an unfinished See also:Story of the Civil War, to which he devoted most of his later years; this covers the years 1861–62. The See also:Army under See also:Pope is a detailed narration of the See also:Virginia See also:campaign of See also:August–See also:September 1862, which played a great See also:part in See also:reversing contemporary See also:judgment on the events of those operations, notably as regards the unjustly-condemned General Fitz John See also:Porter. Outside See also:America, Ropes is known chiefly as the author of The Campaign of See also:Waterloo, which is one of the See also:standard See also:works on the subject.
The greater part of his studies of the Civil War appears in the Military Historical Society's publications. Papers on the Waterloo campaign appeared in the See also:Atlantic Monthly of See also:June 1881, and in Scribner's See also:Magazine of See also:March and April 1888. Amongst his See also:miscellaneous works is a See also:paper on " The Likenesses of See also:Julius See also:Caesar " in Scribner's Magazine (See also:February 1887).
See Memoir of John Codman Ropes (Boston, privately printed. 1901).
ROPE-WALKING, the See also:art of walking, dancing and performing tricks of See also:equilibrium on a rope or See also:wire stretched between two supports. It has been popular with most See also:Asiatic and See also:European peoples from the beginning of history. Before the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century a rope was invariably used, and was stretched as tightly as possible, on which See also:account the art was called Tight-rope Walking. About the See also:year 1875 the slack wire, stretched loosely from support to support, was introduced, and is now more commonly used. the performer is often aided in keeping his See also:balance by a See also:Chinese See also:umbrella or a See also:long See also:pole.
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