See also:

• BITSCH (Fr. Bitche)

BITSCH (Fr. Bitche)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in See also:

• ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace-See also:

• LORRAINE

Lorraine, on the See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

Horn, at the See also:

• FOOT

foot of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern slope of the See also:

• VOSGES
• VOSGES (Lat. Vogesus or Vosagus, Ger. Wasgau or Vogesen)

Vosges between See also:

• HAGENAU

Hagenau and See also:

• SAARGEMUND (Fr. Sarreguemines)

Saargemund . Pop . (1905) 4000 . There are a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic and a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, a classical school and an See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of forestry . The See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries include See also:

• SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe-making and See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch-making, and there is some See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

• TIMBER

timber . The town of See also:

• BITSCH (Fr. Bitche)

Bitsch, which was formed tut of the villages of Rohr and Kaltenhausen in the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, derives its name from the old stronghold (mentioned in 1172 as Bytis Castrum) See also:

• STANDING

standing on a See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock some 250 ft. above the town . This had See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long given its name to the countship of Bitsch, which was originally in the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes of Lorraine . In 1297 it passed by See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to See also:

• EBERHARD
• EBERHARD, CHRISTIAN AUGUST GOTTLOB (1769-1845)
• EBERHARD, JOHANN AUGUSTUS (1739-1809)

Eberhard I. of See also:

• ZWEIBRUCKEN

Zweibrucken, whose See also:

• LINE

line became See also:

• EXTINCT

extinct in 1569, when the countship reverted to Lorraine . It passed with that duchy to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France in 1766 . After that date the town rapidly increased in See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population . The citadel, which had been constructed by See also:

• VAUBAN

Vauban on the site of the old See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle after the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of Bitsch by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French in 1624, had been destroyed when it was restored to Lorraine in 1698 . This was restored and strengthened in 1740 into a fortress that proved impregnable in all succeeding See also:

• WARS

wars .

The attack upon it by the Prussians in 1793 was repulsed; in 1815 they had to be content with blockading it; and in 1870, though it was closely invested by the Germans after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

Worth, it held out until the end of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war . A large See also:

• PART

part of the fortification is excavated in the red See also:

• SANDSTONE

sandstone rock, and rendered See also:

• BOMB

bomb-See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof; a See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply of See also:

• WATER

water is secured to the See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison by a deep well in the interior .