. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... by SirHans Sloane and others, to revisit Ameri-ca, for the purpose of describing and de-lineating the natural productions of thatcountry. The result was. The NaturalHistory of Carolina, Florida, and the Ba-hama Islands, 2 volumes folio, the numerousplates of which were etched by Royal Society elected him a died in 1749. CATHELINEAU, James, a Frenchroyalist chief, almost the first who rousedthe Vendeans to insurrection, was born in1758, and was a weaver at Pin-en-M
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... by SirHans Sloane and others, to revisit Ameri-ca, for the purpose of describing and de-lineating the natural productions of thatcountry. The result was. The NaturalHistory of Carolina, Florida, and the Ba-hama Islands, 2 volumes folio, the numerousplates of which were etched by Royal Society elected him a died in 1749. CATHELINEAU, James, a Frenchroyalist chief, almost the first who rousedthe Vendeans to insurrection, was born in1758, and was a weaver at Pin-en-Mauge,in the department of the Maine and 1793, he incited the young men of thecanton of St. Florent to resist by force theconscription; gained several victories overthe republicans; was made generalissimoof the royalists; but was at last mortallywounded in attacking Nantz, and died onthe 10th of July. Cathelineau was braveand disinterested, and had such a reputa-tion for piety that he was called the Saintof Atijou. CAT 101 CATHERINE II. empress of Ruesia,born in 1729, was a daughter of the Prince. of Anhalt Zerbst, and was originally namedSophia Augusta, but changed her name in1745, on being married to Peter, the grandduke of Russia. After her husbands ac-cession to the throne, in 1761, he is saidto have intended to divorce her. To pre-vent him from carrying his intentions intoeffect, he was first dethroned, and thenmurdered. Catherine was crowned atMoscow in 1762. In 1768 she engaged ina war with Turkey, which terminated suc-cessfully in 1774. While this was pro-ceeding, she concluded, in 1772, with theking of Prussia and the emperor of Ger-many, the infamous partition treaty, bywhich the first blow was given to the exist-ence of Poland. Still pursuing her schemeof expelling the Turks from Europe, andreigning at Constantinople, she, in 1783,seized on the Crimea, and a part of theKuban, and annexed them to her 1787, the Porte declared war againsther, and hosti
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