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 EAKOCZY EALEIGH 191 peated incursions into the country, which were so destructive that British intervention was necessary to save the people from ruin ; and the principal Rajpoot states were transferred to the English, by the consent of their own rulers, in 1818, after the British forces had de- feated Holkar and expelled the Pindarree rob- bers. A few were acquired earlier, and others subsequently. Their present political status is that of subject-allied states. See Tod's " An- nals and Antiquities of Kajasthan " (London, 1829), and Malleson's "Historical Sketch of the Native States of India " (1875). RAKOCZY, a noble family of Transylvania, several members of which were princes of that country. Of these, GEOEGB I. (1631-'48) made himself conspicuous by his cooperation with the Swedes in the latter years of the thirty years' war, when he succeeded in forcing the emperor Ferdinand III. to restore the liberties of Hungary by the treaty of Linz (1645). (See Actes et documents pour servir d Vhistoire de Valliance de George Rakbczy avee lea Francais et les Suedois, &c., by A. Szilagyi, Pesth, 1875.) His son GEOEGE II. was less successful in a war with Poland (1657). The most celebrated member of the family, FKANCIS II., grandson of the preceding, born in 1676, died at Bodos- to, Turkey, April 8, 1735. After the death of his father, Francis I., and the surrender of Munkacs to the Austrians after a heroic de- fence by his mother, he was brought up under the care of the court of Vienna, and during the insurrection under Tokolyi was placed un- der the Jesuits in Bohemia, who strove in vain to induce him to abjure Protestantism. Subsequently he received part of the estates of his relatives, and was permitted to reside in Hungary. Accused of being engaged in a conspiracy to excite rebellion, he was taken in May, 1701, to Austria, and confined in a dungeon at Wiener-Neustadt ; but he escaped and fled to Poland, and in 1703 suddenly ap- peared in the vicinity of Munkacs, collected an insurrectionary band, and issued a bitter mani- festo against Austria. He was subsidized by Louis XIV., then engaged in the war of the Spanish succession, and after a short time had most of Hungary and Transylvania in his pow- er, and even threatened Vienna. The revolted Hungarian districts and cities in 1705 formed a confederation similar to those of Poland, ap- pointing Eakoczy, who had previously been elected prince of Transylvania, their chief with the title of dux (Hung, vezer). But in August, 1708, while investing Trentschin, he was sur- prised and badly defeated by the Austrian gen- eral Heister, and barely escaped. From this time the arms of Austria were in the ascen- dant, and her victories in the field were assisted by the dissensions which long before had man- ifested themselves among the confederates. Eak6czy having gone to Poland, in order to meet with Peter the Great of Eussia, a peace was concluded in his absence between Austria and the confederates at Szatmar in 1711. Af- 697 VOL. xiv. 13 ter living several years in France and Spain, Eakoczy went to Turkey, and with other refu- gees passed the rest of his life at the castle of Eodosto on the sea of Marmora. He wrote a narrative of the struggle in Hungary under the title of Hemoires sur les revolutions de Hongrie (the Hague, 1738). He also composed medita- tions, hymns, soliloquies, and a commentary on the Pentateuch. RAKOS. See PESTH. RlLE, or Rasles, Sebastien, a French mission- ary to the North American Indians, born in Franche-Comte in 1658, killed at Norridge- wock, Maine, Aug. 12, 1724. He was a Jesuit, and taught Greek at a college in Nimes. He embarked at La Eochelle, July 23, 1689, arrived in Quebec on Oct. 13, and was stationed suc- cessively at the Abenaki mission of St. Francis near the falls of the Chaudiere, then in the Illinois country, and finally at Norridgewock on the Kennebec. He arrived here at least as early as 1695. The English settlers ascribed their quarrels with the Abenakis to his influ- ence, accused him of instigating the forays of the savages upon the settlements along the coast, and set a price upon his head. A party of New Englanders under Capt. Hilton at- tacked Norridgewock in 1705, but withdrew after burning the church. A second expedi- tion in 1722 pillaged his cabin and the church, which had been rebuilt, but the missionary es- caped to the woods. Among the papers which they carried off was his dictionary of the Abe- naki language, now preserved in the library of Harvard college, and printed in the memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences, with an introduction and notes by John Pick- ering (4to, Cambridge, 1833). In 1724 a party of 208 men from Fort Eichmond surprised Norridgewock, killed a number of the Indians, and shot Father Eale at the foot of the mission cross. See a memoir of him by Convers Francis, D. D., in Sparks's " American Biogra- phy " (2d series, vol. vii.). RALEIGH, a S. county of West Virginia, bounded E. by the Kanawha or New river, and watered by Coal river and other tributaries of the Kanawha; area, about 380 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 3,673, of whom 16 were colored. The surface is mountainous. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 7,509 bushels of wheat, 73,657 of Indian corn, 16,278 of oats, 6,720 of potatoes, 5,769 Ibs. of tobacco, 11,338 of wool, and 41,635 of butter. There were 827 horses, 3,357 cattle, 5,462 sheep, and 4,120 swine. Capital, Ealeigh Court House. RALEIGH, a city of Wake co., North Caro- lina, capital of the county and state, on the Ealeigh and Gaston and the Ealeigh and Au- gusta Air Line railroads, and on the North Carolina division of the Eichmond and Dan- ville railroad, 6 m. W. of the Neuse river, and 230 m. S. by W. of Washington ; lat. 35 47' N., Ion. 7848'W.; pop. in 1850,4,518; in 1860, 4,780; in 1870,7,790, of whom 4,094 were colored. It is pleasantly situated on