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* LXJNDGREN. 541 LUNEBUEG. land, where he was commissioned by Queen Vic- toria to paint ceremonial pictures. He was sent to India during the war in 1858, the results of which expedition were a series of five hundred stcelclics, including numerous portraits. His best works include "San Vitale, Ravenna." and the "Library, Siena," both in the National ilu- seum, Stockholm ; "Feast of Corpus Domini in Rome" (1841), Royal Palace, Stockholm; and a. series of illustrations to "Old Swedish Tales" (1875). LtrN1)Y, Benjamin (1789-18.39). An Ameri- can anti-slavery agitator, bom of Quaker parent- age at Hardwick. Warren County. X. .T. At the age of nineteen he went to Wheeling, on the Ohio, where he worked as a saddler's apprentice. The town was a great thoroughfare for the slave trade, and Lundy's indignation was quickly aroused against the whole slave system. His ap- prenticeship completed, he married, and, settling in Saint Clairsville, Ohio, soon built up a profit- able business. It was not long before he organized 'The Union Humane Society,' which soon numbered nearly five hundred members. In 1819 he went to Missouri in the hope of strength- ening the opposition to the admission of the Ter- ritory as a slave State, where he wrote a number of articles exposing the evils of slavery and the wickedness of its extension. After losing nearly all his property, he returned to Ohio in 1821 and began the publication at Mount Pleasant of the Goiius of ITnivcrsal Emancipation, which he fhortly afterwards removed to .lonesborough, Tenn.. and then again, in 1824, to Baltimore, Md. In 1825 he visited Haiti in search of a refuge for emancipated blacks, and four years later made another voyage to that country for the same purpose. Two years later he was brutally as- saulted by a Baltimore slave-dealer enraged over an article in the Genius. In 1828 he jour- neyed on foot through the Eastern States, and made forty-threo public addresses. In the fall of 1829 William Lloyd Garrison (q. v.) joined Lundy in Baltimore as assistant editor of the Oenius. The two were alike in their hostility to slavery, but Garrison was an advocate of immediate eman- cipation on the soil, while Limdy was committed to schemes of colonization abroad. Within a few months, while Lundy was absent in Mexico, Gar- rison published extremely radical articles de- manding immediate emancipation and asserting that the domestic slave trade was as piratical as the foreign. Garrison was brought to trial for criminal libel, and fined and imprisoned. This occurrence so reduced the circulation of the flcnins that a friendly dissolution of partnership between Lund}' and Ciarrison took place. It also raised up such a hostile spirit in Baltimore that Lundy shortly afterwards removed the paper to Washington, where, after some years, it failed. In the winter of 18.30-31 Lundy visited the Wil- berforce colony of fugitive slaves in Canada. In the following two years he made two trips to Texas in an attempt to secure an asylum for negroes vmder the Mexican flag. In 183G he started the Xational Inquirer in Philadelphia, but retired from it in 1838. In the latter year almost all his possessions, which were stored in Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, were destroyed by a mob. which burned the building. In the following winter he removed to Lowell. 111., where he reestablished the Genius of Universal Emanci- pation; but after issuing a few numbers he was seized with a fever, and died August 22, 1839. Consult Earle, Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Ijundy (Philadelphia, 1847). LUNDY ISLAND. An island of Devonshire, England, situated at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, about 9 miles from the mainland (Map: England. B 5). It has an area of over 900 acres; there is a lighthouse. Population, about 180. LUNDY'S LANE, Battle of. A battle fought along a. roadway known as Lundy's Lane, about 1 '/•: miles from Niagara Falls, on the Canadian side, on July 25, 1814, between an American force under the command first of General Scott and then of Gen. .Jacob Brown, and a greatly superior British force under the command of General Riall. On the after- noon of the 25th General Brown, stationed with the American army at Chippewa, or- dered General Scott, with about 1300 men, to advance toward Queenstown. The movement be- gan between five and si.x o'clock, and after march- ing for about 2% miles General Scott came upon a British force posted along Lundy's Lane. He immediately decided to attack. Major .Jesup, commanding the American right, turned the British left, capturing a number of prisoners, including General Riall, but the American centre and left were less successful, though they held the greater part of their ground against superior numbers. Before nightfall General Brown ar- rived with reenforcements, and the fighting con- tinued until some time after dark, little material advantage having been gained on either side excepting the capture of a strong battery by the Americans under the immediate command of Col. ■Tames Miller. Generals Brown and Scott having been wounded, the command of the Americans de- volved on Gen. E. W. Ripley, who, after holding possession of the field for about an hour, re- tired to the original American encampment. The British force, including reenforcements which ar- rived during the battle, nimibercd altogether about 4.500 men: that of the Americans about 2000. The American loss was 171 killed. 571 wounded, and 110 missing: while the British lost 84 killed. 559 wounded, and 235 prisoners. The battle is also known as the battle of Bridgewater and the battle of Niagara. LUNE, QuADRATiRE ( AREA ) OF. See Mensu- ration. LUNEBURG, lu'ne-boorK. An ancient town of the Province of Hanover. Germany, situated on the Ilmenau. a tributary of the Elbe, about 30 miles southeast of Hamburg (Ma'p: Prussia, D 2). It is niedireval in appearance, with its narrow streets, ancient buildings, and a portion of its walls. Its churches are of considerable architectural interest, notably that of Saint John (fourteenth century), purely Gothic in stvle with a loftv tower, "that of Saint Nicholas (1409), and that of Saint Michael ( 13t>7-1418), with the tombs of the princes of Lilneburg. The Rathaus in the marketplace consists of a num- ber of buildings constructed from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, and containing fine examples of ancient wood-carving and glass- painting. The educational institutions include a gj-ni- nasium. a seminary for teachers, and a library of 34.000 volumes, including many incunabula. Lilneburg has been noted since ancient times for