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Rh placed on the retired list after forty-nine years and six months of service. He is the author of "The Atlantic Coast" (New York, 1883) and "The Old Navy and the New" (Philadelphia, 1891).—His brother, Jacob, soldier, b. in Botetourt co., Va., 7 Jan., 1806; d. in Lockland, Ohio, 6 Feb., 1894. He WHS graduated at West Point in 1881, and served there as assistant instructor until September, 1833. During the threatened "'nullification" of South Carolina he was on duty in Charleston harbor. From 4 Oct., 1834, to 5 Nov., 1837, he was again at West Point as an instructor, and he resigned from the army, 30 Nov., 1837, to accept a professorship of mathematics at Bacon college, Georgetown, Ky. Thence he went to Jefferson college, Washington. Miss., in 1839, to the university of Indiana in 1840, to Jefferson college again in 1843, and returned to Bacon college in 1848. From 1855 to 1861 he was a civil engineer at Ripley, Ohio, and on April 18 of that year became captain in the 12th Ohio volunteers. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel 2 May, and participated in the West Virginia campaign (June and July) under McClellan. where the first considerable federal successes of the war were gained. After the campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi he was promoted to be brigadier-general of volunteers 16 July, 1862. and was in command of camps of instruction in Ohio and Illinois until 16 Dec, 1863. From 10 April, 1864, to 14 Jan., 1865, when he resigned, he was in command of the district of east Tennessee.

AMORY, Robert, physician, b. in Boston, 2 May, 1842. He was graduated at Harvard in 1863, and received his degree from tiie medical department in 1866. After studying in Paris and Dublin for a year, he settled in Longwood (Brookline), Mass. In addition to the practice of his profession he has taken a warm interest in town affairs, filling several important positions. He was appointed in 1869 lecturer at Harvard college on the physiological action of drugs, and was afterward professor of physiology in the medical school at Bowdoin college, but resigned this chair in 1874. He is a member of several societies of medical science, and has published "Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium" (Boston, 1872), and "Action of Nitrous Oxide" (1870); and has contributed to periodicals important papers on "Chloral Hydrates: Experiments Disproving Evolution of Chloroform in Organism," "Pathological Action of Prussic Acid," "Poisons," etc. He has also translated and edited "Lectures on Physiology," by Prof. Russ, of the Strasburg university medical school (Boston, 1875). His "Photography of the Spectrum" was published in the proceedings of the American academy. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the Massachusetts volunteer militia in 1875, surgeon in 1876, and medical director of the 1st brigade a few months later.

AMORY, Thomas Coffin, lawyer, b. in Boston, Mass., 16 Oct., 1812; d. there, 20 Aug., 1889. He was graduated at Harvard, and became a member of the bar. For many years he was connected with the municipal government of Boston, serving as alderman and in important positions in the educational departments. During this period he contributed to various periodicals, and published many reports and addresses regarding his official duties. In 1858 he published a "Life of James Sullivan," governor of Massachusetts, and in 1868 "The Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan." This was followed by numerous pamphlets and contributions to the historical magazines on subjects connected with the revolutionary war, among which were "Old Cambridge and New," "Our English Ancestors," "Homes of the Olden Times," "Old Homes of New England," "The Transfer of Erin," and "The Acquisition of Ireland by England." In 1886 he published "A Life of Sir Isaac Coffin: His English and American Ancestors." He wrote numerous poems, the best-known of which is, perhaps, "William Blaxton, Sole Inhabitant of Boston." This was written at a time when it was proposed to pull down the old South church, and was followed by "The Siege of Boston" (Cambridge, 1888), "Charles River" (1888), and "Miscellaneous Poems" (1888).

AMORY, Thomas Isaac Coffin, b. in Boston, 3 Nov., 1830; d. of yellow fever in Beaufort, N. C, 8 Oct., 1864. He was graduated at West Point in 1851, and served on garrison and frontier duty in the Utah expedition (1858-'60), and on recruiting service until 1861, when he became colonel of the 17th Massachusetts volunteers. He was stationed at Baltimore with his regiment until March, 1862, when he was ordered to North Carolina and took part in the operations about Newbern, Beaufort, Goldsboro, and Kinston, until 1 March, 1864, when he was assigned to a general command of the forces south of the Trent river, and on 5 July to the sub-district of Beaufort. He was promoted to be major 19 September, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers 1 October.

AMPUDIA, Pedro de, Mexican soldier. He was made a general by Santa Anna in 1840, led a foray on the Texas frontier under the command of Gen. Woil in 1842, took a prominent part in the conflicts with the Texan forces under Summerville, and in December, 1842, commanded the land forces in the siege of Campeachy, Yucatan. He was compelled to retreat by Com. Moore on 26 June, 1843, and went to Tabasco, where in 1844 he aroused great indignation by his cruel execution of Gen. Sentmanat, who had attacked the town. He was dismissed from his command, but on 11 April, 1846, appeared before Matamoras as a general in the army under Arista. He was given command of Monterey, but, after a spirited defence, surrendered to Gen. Taylor. 24 Sept., 1846.

ANACAONA, also called the Golden Flower, was an Indian queen, wife of Caonabo, one of the five caciques who possessed the island of Santo Domingo when the Spaniards discovered it and settled "there in 1492. She was celebrated as a composer of ballads and narrative poems, called areitos. The Indians, being ill-treated by the conquerors, revolted, and made a long war against them; and during a feast organized to honor the queen of Jaragua, who was friendly to the Spaniards, Gov. Nicolas de Ovando ordered the arrest of Anacaona and her Indian noblemen, all of whom, being suspected of conspiracy, were executed.

AÑASCO, Juan de (an-yas'-co), Spanish traveller, lived in Seville in the first part of the 16th century. He was one of the most active of the officers that accompanied Hernando de Soto during his famous expedition to Florida and the regions along the Mississippi river, from 1539 to 1543, and the successful return of the expedition was largely due to him, who was their guide in descending the Mississippi.

ANAYA, Pedro Maria (ah-nay'-ya), Mexican soldier. He took part in the operations against the American army of occupation, and was twice president of Mexico ad interim: while President Santa Anna was absent from the capital (2 April to 20 May, 1847), and then in the absence of President Peiia V Pena (12 Nov., 1847. to 8 Jan., 1848).

ANCHIETA, José de (an-chee-ay'-ta). Portuguese missionary, b. at Laguna, in Teneriffe, Ca-