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LEFT MOORE, FORT 300 MOORE power of the Moors was restricted to the kingdom of Granada, and in 1238 the king of that territory became the vassal of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. At length, in 1491, Ferdinand V., King of Castile and Aragon, after a 10 years' war, conquered this also, and put an end to the dominion of the Moors in Spain, after it had lasted nearly 800 years. A portion of the Moors then re- turned to Africa; but most of them re- mained in Spain, where they became peaceful and industrious subjects, and adopted generally the external forms of Christianity. Philip II., however, in his hot zeal for Catholicism, resolved on their entire destruction, and by his op- pressions and cruelties, drove them into insurrection, in Granada (1571), after the suppression of which, over 100,000 of them were banished. MOORE, FORT, an ancient defensive work near Sand Bar Ferry on the Savan- nah river, Ga. MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL, American theologian; born in West Chester, Pa., 1857; studied in Germany. Ordained Presbyterian minister in 1884, serving in Yonkers, N. Y. (1886-1889), and Providence, R. I. (1889-1901). Be- came Parkman professor of theology and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard in 1901. He has lectured in most of the big universities in this coun- try and England, and is now President of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. MOORE, GEORGE, an English author; born in 1853. Among his novels are: "A Modern Lover" (1883) ; "A Mummer's Wife" (6th ed. 1885) ; "A Drama in Mus- lin" (1886) ; "Confessions of a Young Man" (1888); "Esther Waters" (1894); etc. He wrote also in verse : "Flowers of Passion" (1877); "Pagan Poems"(1881) ; and the volumes of essays "Impressions and Opinions" (1891); "Modern Paint- ing" (1893); "The Untilled Field" (1903); "Hail and Farewell" (1911- 1914); "The Brook Kerith" (1916). MOORE, GEORGE THOMAS, Amer- ican botanist; born in Indianapolis, 1871; graduated from Harvard, 1895. Had charge of botany department at Dart- mouth College, 1899-1891; physiologist and algologist in Bureau of Plant Indus- try, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1903-1905, professor of plant physiology at Shaw School of Botany, Washington, D. C, 1909-1912. Has written many valuable contributions to scientific sub- jects related to botany. MOORE, JOHN BASSETT, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University and a distinguished publicist and writer on international law; born Dec. 3, 1860, at Smyrna, Del., he was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. He entered the State Department as a law clerk in 1885, and was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State in 1886. While he continued in the public service a great part of his time, he was after 1891 professor of international law at Columbia. In 1898 during the Spanish- American War he was for a time Acting Secretary of State, and was counsel to the American Peace Commission which drew up the treaty with Spain. From 1899 he has represented the United States on many important diplomatic enter- prises. In 1913 he became counselor to the State Department, but resigned in 1914 to resume his work at Columbia. He has published a number of authoritative treatises on his subject, the largest be- ing his "Digest of International Law" (8 vols., 1906). MOORE, JOSEPH HAMPTON, mayor of Philadelphia; born in Woodbury, N. J., in 1864. After graduating from public schools he became a reporter and assistant editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger." In 1895 he entered politics and became Chief Clerk of the City Treasurer, and in 1901, City Treas- urer. In 1905 he was elected to fill an unexpired term in the House of Repre- sentatives, and then from 1907 to 1919 successively re-elected as the candidate of the Republican party. In 1919 against the will of the leaders of the Republican party in Philadelphia he won the nomi- nation for mayor of that city and took oflSce in January, 1920. MOORE, SIR JOHN, a British military officer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1761. He served at Minorca, in the American War, as Brigadier-General in the West Indies (1795), in Ireland dur- ing the rebellion of 1798, in Holland in 1799, and in Egypt in 1801, where he was severely wounded. Moore was now regarded as the greatest living British general. In 1808 he was appointed com- mander-in-chief of the British army in Portugal to operate against Napoleon. He advanced to Salamanca, but was fi- nally compelled to retreat to Corunna. The absence of the fleet to receive his army forced him to a battle against Mar- shal Soult, in which Moore fell, mortally wounded, in the hour of victory, Jan, 16, 1809. MOORE, THOMAS, an Irish poet; born in Dublin, Ireland, May 28, 1779. He was the son of a Catholic grocer. From the school where Sheridan had