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TIGHE, MARY (1772-1810)

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TIGHE, See also:MARY (1772-1810) , Irish poet, daughter of the Rev. See also:William See also:Blachford, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:October 1772. In 1793 she contracted what proved to be an unhappy See also:marriage with her See also:cousin, See also:Henry Tighe, of See also:Woodstock, Co. See also:Wicklow. She died on the 24th of See also:March 181o, at Woodstock, Co. See also:Kilkenny, and was buried at Inistioge. Mrs Tighe was the author of a poem of unusual merit, See also:Psyche or the See also:Legend of Love, printed privately in 1805 and published posthumously in 1811 with some other poems. It is founded on the See also:story as told by See also:Apuleius, and is written in the Spenserian See also:stanza. The poem had many admirers, and high praise is awarded it in a contemporary See also:notice in the Quarterly See also:Review (May 1811). TIGLATH-PILESER (See also:Ass. Tukulti-See also:pal-E-sarra, " my confidence is the son of E-sarra," i.e. the See also:god In-Aristi),:the name of several See also:Assyrian See also:kings. The numbering of these kings is not certain.

TIGLATH-PILESER I., the son of See also:

Assur-ris-isi, ascended the See also:throne c. 1120 B.C., and was one of the greatest of Assyrian conquerors. His first See also:campaign was against the Moschi who had occupied certain Assyrian districts on the Upper See also:Euphrates; then he overran Commagene and eastern See also:Cappadocia, and drove the See also:Hittites from the Assyrian See also:province of Subarti See also:north-See also:east of See also:Malatia. In a subsequent campaign the Assyrian forces penetrated into the Kurdish mountains See also:south of See also:Lake See also:Van and then turned westward; Malatia submitting to the invader. In his fifth See also:year Tiglath-Pileser attacked See also:Comana in Cappadocia, and placed a See also:record of his victories engraved on See also:copper plates in a fortress he built to secure his Cilician conquests. The Aramaeans of north See also:Syria were the next to be attacked, and he thrice made his way as far as the See also:sources of the See also:Tigris. The command of the high road to the Mediterranean was secured by the See also:possession of the Hittite See also:town of Pethor at the junction of the Euphrates and Sajur, and at Arvad he received presents, including a See also:crocodile, from the See also:Egyptian See also:king, and, embarking in a See also:ship, killed a See also:dolphin in the See also:sea. He was passionately fond of the See also:chase and was also a See also:great builder, the restoration of the See also:temple of Assur and See also:Hadad at Assur (g.v.) being one of his See also:works. TIGLATH-PILESER II. or III., son of Hadad-nirari appears to have reigned from about 950 to 930 B.c., but nothing is known about him. TIGLATH-PILESER III. or IV., was a successful See also:general who usurped the Assyrian throne on the 13th of Iyyar 745 B.C., after the fall of the older See also:dynasty, and changed his name of Pulu (Pul) to that of the famous conqueror of earlier times. In Babylonia, however, he continued to be known as Pulu. He was a See also:man of great ability, both military and administrative, and initiated a new See also:system of policy in See also:Assyria which he aimed at making the See also:head of a centralized See also:empire, See also:bound together by a bureaucracy who derived their See also:power from the king.

The empire was supported by a See also:

standing See also:army and an elaborate system of See also:finance. The first task of Tiglath-Pileser was to reduce the Aramaean tribes to See also:order, and so win the gratitude of the Babylonian priests. Then he struck terror into the See also:wild tribes on the eastern frontiers of the See also:kingdom by a campaign which ex-tended into the remotest parts of See also:Media. Next came the defeat of a See also:northern See also:coalition headed by Sar-See also:duris of See also:Ararat, no fewer than 72,950 of the enemy being captured along with the See also:city of Arpad, where the Assyrian king received the See also:homage of various Syrian princes. Arpad revolted soon afterwards, but after a See also:siege was taken in 740 B.C. The following year See also:Azariah of See also:Judah appears among the enemies of Tiglath-Pileser, who had over-thrown his Hamathite See also:allies and annexed the nineteen districts of Hamath. The conquered populations were now transported to distant parts of the empire.. In 737 B.C. Tiglath-Pileser again marched into Media, and in 735 he invaded Ararat and wasted the See also:country See also:round the See also:capital Van to a distance of 450 See also:miles. In 734 B.C. he was called to the help of Yahu-khazi (See also:Ahaz) of Judah, who had been attacked by Pekah of See also:Israel and Rezon (Rasun) of See also:Damascus. Rezon, defeated in See also:battle, fled to his capital which was at once invested by the Assyrians, while with another portion of his army Tiglath-Pileser ravaged Syria and overran the kingdom of See also:Samaria. See also:Ammon, See also:Moab, See also:Edom and the See also:queen of Sheba sent See also:tribute, and Teima in northern See also:Arabia was captured by the Assyrian troops.

In 732 B.C. Damascus See also:

fell; Rezon was put to See also:death, and an Assyrian See also:satrap appointed in his See also:stead. See also:Tyre also was made tributary. The next year Tiglath-Pileser entered Babylonia, but it was not until 729 B.C. that the Chaldaean See also:prince Ukin-zer (Chinzirus) was driven from See also:Babylon and Tiglath-Pileser acknowledged as its legitimate ruler. In the See also:early See also:part of Tebet 727 B.C. he died, after having built two palaces, one at See also:Nineveh, the other at See also:Calah. See P. Rost, See also:Die Keilschriftteste Tiglat-Pilesers III. (1893) ; also BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, § v. See also:History (" Second Assyrian Empire ") ; and authorities quoted in § viii. See also:Chronology.

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