- Dade, Francis Langhorne by Alan Malone
... 1793–1835) soldier; born in King George County, Va. A career officer, he received an infantry commission in 1813. A force of Seminoles and blacks surprised and nearly annihilated his 115-man force in Florida on December 28, 1835. Dade fell dead in the first volley, and only three of his soldiers survived to tell the story of the "Dade Massacre." Florida ...
- Melbourne by Hannah Hodges
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount. 1779--1848; Whig prime minister (1834; 1835--41). He was the chief political adviser to the young Queen VictoriaMelbourne. A port in SE Australia, capital of Victoria, on Port Phillip Bay: the second largest city in the country; settled in 1835 and developed rapidly with the discovery of rich goldfields in 1851; three universities. Pop.: 3 160 171 (2001 ...
- Tzu Hsi by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Nov. 29, 1835; died Nov. 15, 1908, in Peking. Manchu empress; de facto ruler of China from 1861 to 1908.Tz’u Hsi was the concubine of the emperor Hsien Feng, but after the birth of his son—the heir to the throne—she became his second wife. She was regent from 1861 to 1873 and from 1875 to 1889. All power was again concentrated in her hands as a result of a palace coup in 1898. Tz’u ...
- De la Beche, Sir Henry Thomas by Hayden Cook
1796–1855, English geologist. As a result of his private undertaking to prepare a geological map of England, the British government became aware of the need for such mapping. In 1832 his work was subsidized, and in 1835 the Geological Survey was formed with De la Beche as its first director. He wrote several standard works on geology, including A Geological Manual. (1831, 3d ed. 1833) and How to ...
- Jim Crow by Webster's
A negro; -- said to be so called from a popular negro song and dance, the refrain of which is "Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow," produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a famous negro minstrel.