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594 of a brigade, and took part in the battles of Cala- ma, 23 March, Pisagua, 2 Nov., Dolores, 19 Nov., and Tarapaca, 2? Nov., 1879. In 1880 he partici- pated in the expedition to the province of Moque- gua, and commanded in the attack and capture of the fortress of Arica on 7 June, for which he was promoted brigadier. In January, 1881, he com- manded a division of 8,500 men in the battle of Chovrillos, and the victory of Miraflores was prin- cipally due to him, according to the official report of the commander-in-chief. After his return to Chili he was promoted by congress major-general and appointed inspector-general of the army, which post he held at the time of his death.

LAGRANDIERE, Charles Marie de (lah- grond'-yair'), West Indian naval officer, b. in La Desirade, W. I., in 1729; d. in Vannes, France, 27 April, 1812. He entered the French navy in 1744. and served during most of his life in Canada and in the West Indies. During the war of American independence he commanded a squadron, and cruised from Charleston to Boston. Joining Ad- miral Destouches, he defeated, 16 March, 1781, in Chesapeake bay, the British fleet under Marriot Arbuthnot. He was employed afterward in the West Indies, and made several expeditions against Dominica, the Bahama islands, and British Guiana. He governed La Desirade in 1783-'6, and afterward commanded Les Saintes. During the French revo- lution he was employed at Santo Domingo, Marti- nique, and Guadeloupe. He retired in 1802. He published " Histoire de la marine Francaise durant les guerres d'Amerique" (2 vols., Vannes, 1808).

LAGRAVIERE, Jurien Pierre Roch de (lah'- grav'-yair'), French naval officer, b. in Gannat, 5 Nov., 1772; d. in Paris, 14 Jan., 1849. He entered the navy in 1785, and in 1796 commanded a brig, with which he cruised for eighteen months on the coast of Brazil and in the West Indies, destroying slave-ships. In 1798, as captain of a frigate, he commanded the station of Paraguay. In 1802 he was attached to the expedition to Santo Domingo, and captured the fortress of Leogane, 4 March, 1803. During the following years he was employed to escort French merchant vessels from America to Brest. In 1816 he was promoted rear-admiral, and in 1819 bombarded Algiers. On his return he received orders to visit all the harbors of Brazil, West Indies, and South America, to ascertain the justice of the claims of the French residents in those countries, and especially to study the politi- cal and commercial situation of South America, and in eighteen months he accomplished his mis- sion successfully. In 1824 he was instructed to force the government of Hayti to settle the claims of the French residents who had been despoiled during the troubles of 1790-'84, and twenty-four hours after his arrival off Port au Prince a "treaty was signed with the French minister. On 1 March, 1831, he was promoted vice-admiral, and in the fol- lowing year was created a peer of France. His publications include " Rapport a sa Majeste Tres Chretienne sur la situation politique et coinmer- ciale du Perou et du Chili" (2 vols., Paris, 1821); " Rapport sur la situation et les reclamations des residents Francais dans l'Amerique du Sud " (2 vols., 1822) ; " La question Haitienne : l'indemnite, et les veritables ressources du pays" (1824); and " Encore la question Haitienne : Haiti peut-il paver l'indemnite?" (2 vols., 1835).

LA GUERRA, Pablo de, jurist, b. in Califor- nia; d. in Santa Barbara, Cal., 5 Feb., 1874. He was the son of Don Jose Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, a native of Spain, who went to Mexico as an officer of the Spanish army. Don Jose was for many years commandant at Santa Barbara, and, at his death in 1858, left over 100 descendants. Three of his daughters married Americans. Pablo, the most eminent of his sons, studied law, was elected to the state senate, and was for a long time judge of the 1st judicial district of California.

LA HAILANDIERE, Celestine Rene Laurence Guynemer de, R. C. bishop, b. in Combourg, France, in 1798; d. in Triandin, France, in 1882. He finished his classical education in the College of Rennes, was admitted to the bar. and made judge of the tribunal of Redon at the age of twenty-four, but soon resigned the office and enter the theological seminary of Rennes. He was ordained deacon in 1824, priest in 1825, and assigned to missionary duty in Rennes. In 1836 he accompanied Bishop Brute to the United States as his vicar-general, labored among the French Catholics of Vincennes, Ind.. and also assisted in the ad- ministration of the diocese. In 1838 he went to Europe to procure priests for German Catholics who were beginning to settle in Indiana. While engaged in this work he heard of the death of Bishop Brute, and at the same time that he had been appointed his coadjutor, with right of succes- sion. He was consecrated in 1839, and before he left France he sent several clerical students and priests. He persuaded the Eudist fathers of Rennes to send a body of priests to found a college in Vincennes at their own expense, and induced the newly established Society of the holy cross to send some of their brothers, with a priest at their head, to found schools for boys in his diocese. He also induced skilled workmen, who were not then to be found so far in the western settlements, to follow him, by whose aid he afterward erected the beautiful cathedral of Vincennes. With the money he had ob- tained in France he built a seminary in Vincennes, complete in all details, after the European plan, and founded a library. Through his energy the little village of Vincennes, consisting of a few hundred families, was transformed into a city. Afterward he obtained leave to remove his see to Indianapolis, as Vincennes was out of the line of travel, but he finally determined to remain. Mean- while dissatisfaction was springing up around him ; he was accused of being arbitrary, and of not allowing his vicar-general and his other officials to take any part in the management of the diocese. In 1845 he went to Rome, laid his diffi- culties before the pope, and offered his resignation ; but the pope refused to receive it, and invested De la Hailandiere with the dignity of assistant to the pontifical throne, and he hastened back, bring- ing more priests and students. During his ab- sence the discontent among the clergy and laity had taken greater proportions. He had, they said, meddled with every institution, changed priests from one place to another, and created such a feel- ing of general uneasiness that no one knew what he was to do or not to do. The bishop acknowl- edged that there was some reason for dissatisfac- tion, and asked to be relieved, and this time his resignation was accepted. His health was some- what shattered, and he wintered in New Orleans, and later went to New York, where, after making arrangements with Bishop Hughes for the publica- tion of the life of Brute, he sailed for France, where the rest of his life was spent. His remains were brought to the United States in 1882 and entombed near the three other bishops of Vincennes.

LA HONTAN, de, Armand Louis de Delondarce, Baron, French traveller, b. near Mont de Marsan, Gascony, France, about 1667 ; d. in Hanover in 1715. He arrived in Canada, probably as