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Rh took service under the insurgent Gen. Rondeau, and was with him in many battles fouglit in upper Peru (now Bolivia). He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1813, and given command of the guerillas, with which, in 1814, he continually mo- lested the Spanish Gen. Pezuela, forcing him to retreat to Suipacha; but Pezuela afterward routed both Rondeau and Cordova, then commanding a division, at Viluma, near Cuzco, on 15 Nov., 1815. Then Cordova offered his services to Gen. San Mai'tin, who was preparing an expedition to Chili, and, having distinguished himself at the battle of Chacabuco, Chili, was appointed colonel in the Chilian army, and as such fought at Cancha Ra- yada and Maipo in 1818. On 14 Jan., 1819, he embarked in one of the Chilian vessels commanded by Lord Cochrane, took an important part in several unsuccessful attacks upon Callao, returned to Chili, afterward accompanied San Martin when he landed at Pisco, 8 Sept., 1820, was awarded the rank of brigadier- general, and finally entered Lima with San Martin, 12 July, 1821. The constituent con- gress of Peru appointed Cordova general of divis- ion, and elected him a member of the triumvirate intrusted with the government of the country, and subsequently was defeated, 18 June, 1823, by Canterac, the Spanish general that entered Lima; then Cordova joined Gen. Sucre, with whom he entered Arequipa, 30 Aug., and on 5 Aug., 1824, took part in the defeat of the royalists at Junin, when he commanded the centre of the army under Bolivar. At the battle of Ayacucho. 9 Dec, 1824, Cordova decided the victory for the revolutionary forces by defeating the three portions of the royal- ist army in succession, and taking prisoners Vice- roy Laserna and Gen. Moret, even after the divis- ion under Sucre, the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary troops, had been routed by the Span- iards. That was the end of the Spanish- American war of independence. In December, 1827, the Pe- ruvian people elected Gen. Cordova vice-president and lie acted as such for six years, afterward retir- ing to Ins farm at Cajamarca, where he died.

CORDOVA, Pedro de, clergyman, b. in Spain in 1460; d. in Santo Domingo in 1525. He entered the Dominican order and embarked with two other Dominicans for Santo Domingo in 1510. His aus- tere life commended the veneration of the Span- iards, as well as of the Indians. In conjunction with his companions, he established schools in every part of the island for the natives and the children of the colonists. But when he attempted to free the Indians from the slavery to which the Spaniards had reduced them, he became the object of bitter hatred. The feeling was increased when he refused to censure a monk who had j^i'eached sermons against the cruelty of the colonists. He then set out for Spain, and laid the wrongs of the Indians before the great council and the king. Some regulations were made for bettering their condition, but, knowing that these would be futile as long as the natives were portioned out among the colonists, he demanded permission for himself and his brethren to leave the island and preach the gospel in parts of America where the Spaniards had not formed settlements. This permission was refused by the king, who, however, made him a member of the royal audience of Hispaniola, capi- tal of the island of Santo Domingo. He returned to America, bringing with him fourteen friars from the convent of Salamanca. In 1512 he laid the foundations of the convent of Santa Cruz, in Santo Domingo, the first convent of the Dominican order erected in the New World, Between 1514 and 1519 he despatched three bodies of missionaries to Venezuela, and all of them perished at the hands of the natives. In the same year Pedro de Cor- dova accompanied a body of colonists to the island of Santa Marguerita. The islanders received them so favorably, and showed so much disposition to embrace Christianity, that he sent the vessels back to Santo Domingo for new colonists. No sooner, however, were the ships out of sight than the na- tives rose and massacred all the Spaniards, with the exception of Pedro de Cordova and another, who escaped to the shore, where they found a boat. On returning, he resumed direction of the convent of Santa Cruz. The pope named him grand inquisi- tor of all the Indias, and at his instance Charles V. founded the Royal university of Hispaniola.

CORDUBA Y SALINAS, clergyman, lived in the 17th century. He published the " Vida, Virtutes y Milagros del Apostol del Piru" (1630) and "Epitome de la Historia de la Provincia de los doce Apostoles en la Provincia del Piru (1651); and also wrote "Monarchiam Limensem."

COREAL, Francisco (kor-ray'-al), Spanish traveller, b. in Cartagena in 1648; d. in 1708. He left Cartagena in 1666, went to the West Indies, and then visited Florida and Mexico. After trav- elling in several North American regions he made explorations in Brazil as well as in Uruguay, along the river Plate, and in Peru. He passed the Panama isthmus for the third time in 1679, and returned to his country, where he published his " Viaje a las Indias Occidentales," a narrative of his travels, which was translated and printed in French (3 vols., 1722). Some have thought that Coreal was only the pseudonym used by an un- known author who was not the real traveller.

COREY, Charles Henry, clergyman, b. at New Canaan, New Brunswick. 12 Dec, 1834. He was graduated at Acadia college, Nova Scotia, and at Newton theological seminary in 1861. Not long after his ordination to the Baptist ministry he re- signed his charge, to enter the service of the U. S. Christian commission, and remained in that ser- vice until the end of the war. In 1867 he was ap- pointed principal of the Augusta institute, Au- gusta, Ga., and in the next year was transferred to Richmond, Va., as president of an institution for the training of colored preachers and teachers. In this work he has been eminently successful.

CORLET, Elijah, educator, b. in London, Eng- land, in 1611; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 24 Feb., 1687. He was graduated at Oxford in 1627, estab- lished himself in Caiiil)ridge soon after the settle- ment of the town, and taught the grammar-school there for forty-six years. The Society for the propagation of the gospel compensated him for preparing Indian scholars for the university. Ne- heiniah Walter published an elegy on his death.

CORLEY, Manuel Simeon, patriot, b. in Lexington district, S. C, 10 Feb., 1823. He received an academic education, was apprenticed to a tailor in 1834, and began business for himself in 1838. In 1846 he began to write for the press, in advocacy of temperance and other reforms. He opposed the secession doctrine in 1851, for which he was denounced as an abolitionist and threatened with expulsion from the state. He defended himself in articles openly avowing his principles, which were only received by the newspapers at advertising rates. In 1852 he made a tour through the north, and wrote a series of letters directed against sectionalism to the "Southern Patriot." In 1855-'6 he edited the South Carolina "Temperance Standard." A patent for a new system of cutting clothing was issued to him in 1857. He was one of the few opponents of secession in South Carolina in