Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Manfred, in 1266, gave himundisturbed possession of the kingdom. But theNeapolitans, detesting their new master, sent depu-ties to Bavaria to invite K., then in his 16th year,to come and assert his hereditary rights. K. accord-ingly made his appearance in Italy at the head of10,000 men, and being joined by the Neapolitans inlarge numbers, gained several victories over theFrench, but was finally defeated, and along withhis relative, Frederick of Austria, taken prisonernear Tagliacozzo, 22d August 1268. The two unfor-tunate princes w
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Manfred, in 1266, gave himundisturbed possession of the kingdom. But theNeapolitans, detesting their new master, sent depu-ties to Bavaria to invite K., then in his 16th year,to come and assert his hereditary rights. K. accord-ingly made his appearance in Italy at the head of10,000 men, and being joined by the Neapolitans inlarge numbers, gained several victories over theFrench, but was finally defeated, and along withhis relative, Frederick of Austria, taken prisonernear Tagliacozzo, 22d August 1268. The two unfor-tunate princes were, with the consent of the pope,executed in the market-place of Naples on the20th October. A few minutes before his execution,K., on the scaffold, took ofi his glove, and threwit into the midst of the crowd, as a gage of venge-ance, requesting that it might be carried to hisheir, Peter of Aragon. This duty was undertakenby the Chevalier de Waldburg, who, after manyhair-breadth escapes, succeeded in fulfilling hisprinces last command. See Sicilian Koodoo [Antilope strepsiceros). KOODOO (Antiloiye strepsiceros, or Strepsiceroskoodoo), one of the largest species of antelope. The260 general form is not so light and elegant as that ofmany of the antelopes. The height is about fourfeet, and the length fully eight feet, exclusive of thetail, which is moderately long, and terminates in a tuftlike that of an ox. The male is furnished with greathorns, nearly four feet long, and beautifully twistedin a wide spiral of two turns and a half, very thickat the base, and there wrinkled and ringed. Thefemale is smaller than the male, and hornless. Thegeneial colour is grayish brown, with a narrowwhite stripe along the middle of the back, and eightor ten similar stripes proceeding from it down thesides. The K. lives in small families of four or five,inhabiting chiefly the wooded parts of South is easily domesticated, and is one of the animalswhich, probably, man has not yet
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