The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . with ports, on Lake Michigan; Population 1890, 1,623, ?9°°i 998. MONTALEMBERT, Marc Rene,Marquis de, ? a French military engineer, grandfather of theorator and statesman; born at Angouleme, July16, 1714. He was the author of La Fortification Ptrpendiculaire, and the originator of the modern 1 application of the casemate to forts and was in the French army for several ? years, I and subsequently engaged in the manufacture ofcannon for the navy. He died March 29, 1800. See also Fort
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . with ports, on Lake Michigan; Population 1890, 1,623, ?9°°i 998. MONTALEMBERT, Marc Rene,Marquis de, ? a French military engineer, grandfather of theorator and statesman; born at Angouleme, July16, 1714. He was the author of La Fortification Ptrpendiculaire, and the originator of the modern 1 application of the casemate to forts and was in the French army for several ? years, I and subsequently engaged in the manufacture ofcannon for the navy. He died March 29, 1800. See also Fortification, Vol. IX; pp. 442,- , Garcia Ordonez. See Ro- , mance. Vol. XX; pp. 654, 655 MONTANA had a population, in 1890, of 132,-159,that of t88o having been 39,159—again for theten years of 93,000, or per cent, which wasthe third largest of any state in the Union duringthe same period-. The- population- oftheStateby the twelfth census, (igoo), was 243,^the inhabitants, residedin the threecities of thj state, which constituted ? per. STATE SE.\L OF MONTANA. cent of the entire population. Iri 1890 there weretwo cities in Montana of 8;ooo or-upward, thenumber prescribed by the census authorities asnecessary,to constitute a city. Tlie relative num-ber of males and females in 1890 was 87,882 ofthe former and 44,277 of the latter. This gavebut 50,382 females to each 100,000 males, thelowest relative proportion of that of any of thestates,—a position also held in 1880 and percentage of native-born citizens was ;of foreign-born, The number of negroesin 1890 was 1,490,—a gain of 1,154 from 1880. Montana was admitted to the Union, Nov. S,1889, being the twenty-eighth state admitted andthe forty-first in order. The area as given in igoo, is 146,080 square miles, of which 770 squaremiles are- water surface and 145,310, or 92,998,-400 acres, are land surface. Jul)^ 4, i88g, a constitutional convention met inHelena and adop
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