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* MORGAN. 799 MORGAN. an anthem for (jiuulet, clionis, and orchestra (1851). MORGAN, George WAsniNOTOx (1820-93). An AuiLiicau soldier, born in Wasliinf^ton C'uun- ty. Pa. In 1841 he entered West Point, but left ii before graduating, and began the practice of law in ilount Vernon, Ohio. Upon tlie break- ing out of the Jle.xican War he was ap])uinted colonel of the Second Ohio Volunteers, and later became colonel of the Fifteentli United States Infantry. For gallantry at Contreras and Churubiiseo the Ohio Legislature on his return brevetted him brigadier-general and gave him a vote of thanks. He was appointed United States consul to Marseilles in 1850, and from 1858 to 1801 was United States Minister to Portugal. Returning home upon the lireaking out of the Civil War, he was ma<le brigadier- general of volunteers, and served for a time under General Buell. He was then put in com- mand of the Seventh Division of the Army of the Ohio; was with Sherman at Vicksburg, and later led the expedition that captured Fort Hindman in Arkansas. Owing to ill health, he resigned from the army in 18(j3. He was elect- ed to Congress in 1868 and 1870 by the Demo- crats. MORGAN, Sir Henry (e.1635-88). The most famous of English buccaneers, born at Llan- rhynny, Glamorganshire. Wales. He is said to have been kidnaped at Bristol when a boy. and sold as a servant in Barbados, whence after a time he worked his way to .Taniaica. There he joined the buccaneers, participated in several of their expeditions, and by 1063 was in com- mand of a privateer of his own. In 1008 Morgan was sent by Modyford, Lieutenant-Ciovernor of Jamaica, to Cuba. He took and sacked Puerto Principe, and then sailed to Puerto Bello, Pana- ma, which he captured after a brilliant attack. After levying a hea'y ransom Jlorgan sailed for .Jamaica. Later in the year he led an expedi- tion which ravaged the entire Cuban coast, and in January, 1609, with a fleet of eight ships, he started on his famous expedition against ilara- caibo. The capture and sack of the town was fol- lowed by the greatest excesses on the part of the buccaneers, who were surprised in their orgies by the arrival of three Spanish ships of war. Mor- gan assembled his half-drunken comrades, manned his ships, and after ])arleying with the Spanish commander suddenly attacked him. to- tally defeated him. and escaped. Returning to Jamaica, he was lightly reproved by Modyford, and was at once commissioned 'commander-in- chief of all the ships of war in Jamaica.' In August. 1070, he ravaged the Cuban and main- land coasts, and in January, 1071, he captured and plundered the city of Panama, one of the richest in Spanish America. On February 14th Morgan withdrew and embarked for Jamaica. The attack had been made after a peace had been arranged between England and Spain, and in April. 1072, ilorgan was sent to England on a British frigate; but he took enough gold along with him to secure his vindication, eventually receiving knighthood and high favors from the King, and in December, 1074, was sent back to Jamaica with Lord Vaughan. the new Governor, as Lieutenant-Governor and commander-in-chief of his Majesty's forces in the colony. There he spent the remainder of his life in comparative quiet, and at two diderent periods served as Acting Governor. Consult: Es(iuenieling, Buccaneers of America (1084), an interesting contemporar}' account by one of Morgan's lieutenants, reprinted in the "Adventui-e Series" (London, 1891); Burney, History of liuccaneers in America (London, 1810; reprinted 1902) ; lluteheson, )S'tV Henry Morijan (1890); Howard Pyle, liuccaneers of America (1891) ; Frank R. Stockton, Buccaneers and I'inilcs of Our Coast (1898). MORGAN, Hen'RY James (1842—). A Cana- dian writer, liorn in (Juebec. He was educated at Morrin College, in his native city, and during the administration of the Earl of Elgin entered the public service as keeper of the State records. Afterwards he became chief clerk in the Depart- ment of State, and in 1895 retired on a pension. Among his publications are the Canadian Parlia- nicntary Companion (1802); the Dominion An- nual Register and Review (1878); Tour of H. If. H. the Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States (1800); Shetches of Celehrated Ca)iadians (1802); The Industrial Politics of America (1864) ; The Bench and Bar of Canada (1878); and Canadian Men and ^^'omen of the Times (1898). MORGAN, mor'guN', Jacques de (1857—). A French archjeologist, born at Huisseau-sur- Cosson. Loir-et-Cher. He was educated at the Paris Ecole des Mines, and after a trip in the Indies (1882) and an expedition through the peninsula of Malacca (1884), he spent three years in Southern Russia, the Caucasus, and Turkey. In 1891 he was sent to Egypt as di- rector-general of the French antiquarian ser- vice. There he made valuable discoveries at Ombos and Kaniak. Transferred to Persia in 1897, he explored the Pushti Kuh range and Mesopotamia. His works include: Recherches sur les ot'igincs des peuples dn Caucase (1889) ; Description du temple d'Ombos (1894); Fouilles a Dahehoi'ir (1895) ; Recherches sur Vorigine de I'Eimpte '(1896-97); and Vne mission en Perse (1892-1900). MOR'GAN, James Aitleton (1850—). An American lawyer and author, born in Portland, Maine. He graduated in arts at Racine College, Wisconsin (1807), and in law at Columbia (1869), and practiced from 1871 in New York City, where he founded the Shakespeare Society (1885), of which he was continuously elected president. He edited its publication in twenty volumes. Bankside .Shakespeare ( 1888-92 ), wherein the oldest versions of the text are compared with a view to showing how the plays as they now stand have grown from Shakespeare's time, and that he was merely the most potent factor in their evolution. In defense of this theory Morgan had already published The Shakespearean Myth ( 1881 ), Some Shakespearean Commentators (1882). and Shakespeare in Fact and Criticism (1887). He also published: Selections of Macaronic Poetry (1870); The Law of Literature (1874); Legal Maxims (1877) ; The People and the Railways (1888) ; and other legal treatises. As a lawyer he became associateil with various railroads. MORGAN, .ToitN Hunt (1825-04). An Amer- ican .soldier, prominent on the Confederate side in the Civil War. He was born at Huntsville. Ala. About five years later his father removed to a farm near ' Lexington, Ky. During the