. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. d at sea of fever caught in theAshanti war, Jan. 20, 1896), who in1885 married the Princess Beatrice(born April 14, 1857), youngest daugh-ter of Queen Victoria. Their eldestdaughter, Princess Victoria Ena, in1906, married Alfonso XIII., King ofSpain. The above Prince Alexander, chosenPrince of Bulgaria in 1879, proclaimedthe union of Eastern Rumelia with Bul-garia (1885) without consulting Russiaand thereby also provoked the jealousyof the Serbians, whom he defeated in a
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. d at sea of fever caught in theAshanti war, Jan. 20, 1896), who in1885 married the Princess Beatrice(born April 14, 1857), youngest daugh-ter of Queen Victoria. Their eldestdaughter, Princess Victoria Ena, in1906, married Alfonso XIII., King ofSpain. The above Prince Alexander, chosenPrince of Bulgaria in 1879, proclaimedthe union of Eastern Rumelia with Bul-garia (1885) without consulting Russiaand thereby also provoked the jealousyof the Serbians, whom he defeated in afortnights campaign. But in August,1886, partisans of Russia overpoweredhim in his palace at Sofia, forced himto abdicate, and carried him off to Reni,in Russian territory. Set free in a fewdays, he returned; but after a futile at-tempt to conciliate the Czar, he abdicatedfinally next month, and, assuming thetitle of Count Hartenau, retired to Darm-stadt. He died Feb. 17, 1893. BATTERING RAM, an ancient mili-tary contrivance used for battering downwalls. It existed among the its most perfect form among the. BATTERING RAM Romans it consisted of a pole or beamof wood, sometimes as much as 80, 100,or even 120 feet in length. It was sus-pended by its extremities from a singlepoint, or from two points in anotherbeam above, which lay horizontally acrosstwo posts. When at rest it was level,like the beam above it. When put inaction against a wall, it was swung hori-zontally by men who succeeded each other in constant relays, the blow which it gaveto the masonry at each vibration beingrendered all the more effective that oneend of it was armed with iron. This,being generally formed like a ramshead, originated the name aries (ram),by which it was known among the Ro-mans, and battering-ram, by which itwas afterward known. A roof or shedcovered it to protect the soldiers whoworked it, from hostile missiles, and tofacilitate locomotion it was often placedon wheels. BATTERSEA, a
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