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LEFT BBEMEBTON 165 BBESCIA BREMERTON, a city of Washington, in Kitsap co. It is on Puget Sound and is on the line of the Washington Steam- ship Company. The city is the seat oi the Puget Sound navy yard, which occu- pies nearly 250 acres and has been equipped at a cost of $10,000,000. It was the scene of great activity during the World War. The city has a municipal park, a playground, a public library, the- aters, and other public buildings. Its industries include machine shops, cigar factories, sheet metal works, etc. Pop. (1910) 2,993; (1920) 8,918. BRENNER, a mountain in the Tyro- lese Alps between Innsbruck and Ster- zing; height, 6,777 feet. The road from Germany to Italy, traversing this moun- tain, reaches the elevation of 4,658 feet, and is one of the lowest roads practicable for carriages over the main chain of the Alps. A railway through this route was opened in 1867. BRENNUS, the name of two individ- uals known in history. (1) The first was the hero of an early Roman legend, which relates to the migration of the Gauls into Italy and their march to Clusium and Rome. In the account given by Livy v. 33, etc.), he figures as the Regulus Gallorum, or chieftain of the Gauls. When he arrived at Clusium, the inhabitants called on the Romans for aid. He engaged with and defeated the Ro- mans on the banks of the Allia, the name of which river they ever after held in detestation. (Vergil's "^neid," vii, 717). The whole city was afterward plundered and burned, and the capitol would have been taken but for the brav- ery of Manlius. At last, induced by fam- ine and pestilence, the Romans agreed that the Gauls should receive 1,000 pounds of gold, on the condition that they would quit Rome and its territory altogether; the barbarian brought false weights, but his fraud was detected. The tribune Sulpicius exclaimed against the injustice of Brennus, who immediately laid his sword and belt in the scale, and said, "Woe to the vanquished." The dictator, Camillus, arrived with his forces at this critical time, annulled the capitulation, and ordered him to prepare for battle. The Gauls were defeated; there was a total slaughter, and not a man survived to carry home the news of the defeat. The date of the taking of Rome, assigned by Niebuhr, is the 3d year of the 39th Olympiad, 382 B. c. (2) A king of the Gauls, who, 279 B. C, made an irruption into Macedonia with a force of 150,000 men and 10,000 horse. Pro- ceeding into Greece, he attempted to plunder the temple at Delphi. Pe en- gaged in many battles, lost many thou- sand men, and himself received many wounds. In despair and mortification he killed himself. BRENTA, a river in north Italy, fall- ing, after a winding course of 112 miles, into the Adriatic. Formerly its em- bouchure was at Fusina, opposite Venice ; but a new course was made for it. BRENTFORD, county town of Middle- sex, England, 7 miles W. of London ; with saw mills, pottery works, foundries, etc. Here Edmund Ironside defeated Canute in 1016; and Prince Rupert, Colonel Hollis, in 1642. Pop. about 17,000. BRENT GOOSE {anser brenta or bernicla), a wild goose, smaller than the common barnacle goose and of much darker plumage, remarkable for length of wing and extent of migratory power, being a winter bird of passage in France, Germany, Holland, Great Britain, the United States, Canada, etc. It breeds in high northern latitudes; and is considered the most delicate for the table of all the goose tribe. BRENZ, JOHANN, the Reformer of Wurttemberg, born in Weil, Suabia, June 24, 1499, and went in his 13th year to study at Heidelberg. From Luther's visit to Heidelberg in 1518 he became his zealous adherent. He was at the Mar- burg Disputation in 1529, and the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, and in 1536 was summoned by Duke Ulrich to Wiirttem- berg to lead the Reformation there. For his energetic opposition to the interim of Charles V. he was forced to flee to Stutt- gart, where, in 1553, he became "propst" (or superintendent). Brenz was co- author of the "Wiirttemberg Confession of Faith," and his "Catechism" (1551) has held the next place to that of Luther in Protestant Germany. He died in Stutt- gart, Sept. 11, 1570. BRESCIA (bresh'che-a), a city of north Italy, capital of the province of the same name, is beautifully situated at the foot of the Alps, and is of a quad- rilateral form, about 4 miles in circuit. Among its chief edifices are the new- cathedral, a handsome structure of white marble, begun in 1604, the Rotunda, or old cathedral, the town hall (La Loggia), and the Broletto, or courts. The city contains a museum of antiquities, pic- ture gallery, botanic garden, etc. Near the town are large iron works, and its firearms are esteemed the best that are made in Italy. It has also silk, linen, and paper factories, tan yards, and oil mills, and is an important mart for raw silk. Brescia was the seat of a school of painting of great merit, including Ales-