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TURNER ASHBY (1824-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNER See also:ASHBY (1824-1862)  , See also:American See also:cavalry See also:leader in the Confederate See also:army, was See also:born in Fauquier See also:county, See also:Virginia, in 1824 . Before the See also:Civil See also:War he was a planter in See also:Markham, Fauquier county, and a See also:local politician . When hostilities began he raised a See also:regiment of cavalry, which he led with conspicuous success in the Valley See also:campaigns of 1861-62, under See also:Joseph See also:Johnston and Stonewall See also:Jackson . He was promoted a brigadier-See also:general shortly before his See also:death, which took See also:place in a cavalry skirmish at Harrisonburg, Va., on the 6th of See also:June 1862 . By his See also:early death the Confederates lost one of the best cavalry See also:officers in their service . See also:ASHBY-DE-LA-See also:ZOUCH, a See also:market-See also:town in the See also:Bosworth See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Leicestershire, See also:England; 118 m . N.W. by N. from See also:London by the Midland railway, on the See also:Leicester-See also:Burton See also:branch . Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 4726 . The See also:church of St See also:Helen is a See also:fine Perpendicular See also:building, restored and enlarged (188o); it contains monuments of the See also:Huntingdon See also:family, and an old See also:finger-See also:pillory for the See also:punishment of misbehaviour in church . The Ivanhoe See also:baths, erected in 1826, are frequented for their saline See also:waters, which, as containing See also:bromine, are found useful in scrofulous and rheumatic complaints . The springs are at Moira, 3 M. See also:west . There is a See also:Queen Eleanor See also:cross commemorating the countess of See also:Loudoun, by See also:Sir See also:Gilbert See also:Scott .

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south of the town are the extensive remains of Ashby See also:Castle . There are extensive See also:coal-mines in the neighbouring district, as at Moira, whence the Ashby-de-la-Zouch See also:canal runs south to the See also:Coventry canal . At the See also:time of the Domesday survey Ashby-de-la-Zouch formed See also:part of the estates of See also:Hugh de Grentmaisnel . Soon after it was held by See also:Robert Beaumeis, from whom it passed by See also:female descent to the family of ;a Zouch, whence it derived the See also:adjunct to its name, having been hitherto known as Ashby or Essebi . The earliest See also:record of a See also:grant of market rights is in 1219, when See also:Roger la Zouch obtained a grant of a weekly market and a two days' See also:fair at the feast of St Helen, in See also:consideration of a fine of one See also:palfrey . In the 15th See also:century the See also:manor was held by See also:James See also:Butler, See also:earl of See also:Ormond, after whose See also:attainder it was granted in 1461 to See also:Lord See also:Hastings, who in 1474 obtained royal See also:licence to empark 3000 acres and to build and fortify a castle . At this castle See also:Mary queen of Scots was detained in 1569 under the custody of the earls of Huntingdon and Shrews-See also:bury . During the Civil War See also:Colonel See also:Henry Hastings fortified and held it for the See also:king, and it was visited by See also:Charles in 1645 . In 1648, at the See also:close of the war, it was dismantled by See also:order of See also:parliament . It plays a See also:great part in Sir See also:Walter Scott's Ivanhoe . In the 18th century Ashby was celebrated as one of the best markets for horses in England, and had besides prosperous factories for woollen and See also:cotton stockings and for hats . See See also:Victoria County See also:History—Leicestershire; History of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1852) .

A-SHE-HO (Manch . Alchuku), a town of See also:

Manchuria, See also:China, 125 M . N.E. of See also:Kirin, and 3o in . S. of the Sungari . It is governed by a See also:mandarin of the second class . Pop. about 6o,000 .

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