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JACQUES LEROY DE See also:

SAINT See also:ARNAUD (1801-1854)  , See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 20th of See also:August 18o1 . He entered the See also:army in 1817, and after ten years of See also:garrison service, which he varied by gambling and See also:wild courses, he still held only the lowest commissioned grade . He then resigned, led a See also:life of See also:adventure in several lands and returned to the army at See also:thirty as a sub-See also:lieutenant . He took See also:part in the suppression of the See also:Vendee emeute,and was for a See also:time on See also:General(Marshal) B ugeaud's See also:staff . But his debts and the scandals of his private life compelled him to go to See also:Algeria as a See also:captain in the See also:Foreign See also:Legion . There he distinguished himself on numerous occasions, and after twelve years had risen to the See also:rank of marechal de See also:camp . In 1848 he was placed at the See also:head of a See also:brigade during the revolution in Paris . On his return to See also:Africa, it is said because See also:Louis See also:Napoleon considered him suitable to be the military head of a coup d'etat, an expedition was made into Little Kabylia, in which St See also:Arnaud showed his prowess as a See also:commander-in-See also:chief and provided his superiors with the pretext for bringing him See also:home as a general of See also:division (See also:July 1851) . He succeeded Marshal Magnan as See also:minister of See also:war and superintended the military operations of the coup d'etat of the 2nd of See also:December (1851) which placed Napoleon III. on the See also:throne . A See also:year later he was made marshal of France and a senator, remaining at the head of the war See also:office till 1854, when he set out to command the See also:French in the See also:Crimea, his See also:British colleague being See also:Lord See also:Raglan . He died on See also:board See also:ship on the 29th of See also:September 1854 shortly after commanding at the See also:battle of the See also:Alma . His See also:body was conveyed to France and buried in the Invalides .

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Saint Arnaud (Paris, 1855; 2nd edition with memoir by Sainte-Beuve, 1858) . ST ARNAUD, a See also:town of Kara-Kara See also:county, See also:Victoria, See also:Australia, 158 m. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Melbourne . Pop . (Igor), 3656 . It is a flourishing town with a See also:fine town See also:hall, a school of mines and the See also:court See also:house, in which sittings of the supreme court are held . There are tanneries, See also:chaff and See also:wood yards, and See also:flour-and See also:bone-See also:mills in the town, which lies in a See also:gold-See also:mining, See also:pastoral and agricultural See also:district, the mining being chiefly See also:quartz . To the N.W. is some of the finest agricultural See also:land in the See also:colony . ST See also:ASAPH, a See also:cathedral See also:city and a contributory See also:parliamentary See also:borough of Flintshire, N . See also:Wales, on the See also:Rhyl-See also:Denbigh See also:branch of the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway, about 6 m. from each of these towns . Pop . (1901), 1788 . Its Welsh name, Llanelwy, is derived from the Elwy, between which stream and the Clwyd it stands .

Asaph, to whom the cathedral (one of the smallest in See also:

Great See also:Britain) is dedicated, was See also:bishop here after See also:Kentigern's return hence to See also:Glasgow, and died in 596 . The small, irregularly built town has also a See also:parish See also:church (See also:Anglican), remains of a Perpendicular See also:chapel near Ffynnon See also:Fair (St See also:Mary's Well), a bishop's house, a See also:grammar school (1882) and almshouses for eight poor widows, founded in 1678 by Bishop See also:Barrow . The See also:hill on which St Asaph stands is Bryn Paulin, supposed to have been the camping-ground of Suetonius See also:Paulinus, on his way to See also:Anglesey . The See also:early cathedral, of wood, was burned by the See also:English in 1247 and 1282, and that built by Bishop Anian in the 13th See also:century (Decorated) was mostly destroyed during the war of See also:Owen See also:Glendower in 1402; Bishop Redman's See also:building (c . 1480) was completed by the erection of the See also:choir about 1770 . During the See also:Civil War the Parliamentarians did not spare the building . The choir and See also:chancel were restored, from designs by See also:Sir See also:Gilbert See also:Scott, in 1867-1868, the See also:nave in 1875 . The church is See also:plain, cruciform, and in See also:style chiefly Decorated but partly Early English, with a square See also:tower; it has a library of nearly 2000 volumes (some rare); memorials to Bishop Dafydd ab Owain (d . 1502), to Bishop Luxmore (d . 1830), to the poetess Felicia See also:Hemans, a See also:resident near St Asaph (d . 1835); and Perpendicular See also:oak choir stalls . In the See also:neighbour-See also:hood is the See also:modern See also:mansion of Bodelwyddan, of which the See also:estate was bought by Sir W .

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Williams, See also:speaker of the House of See also:Commons in See also:Charles II.'s time . ST See also:AUGUSTINE, a city and the county-seat of St See also:John's county, See also:Florida, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the See also:state, about 36 m . S.E. of See also:Jacksonville . Pop . (Igo0) 4272, including 1735 negroes; (1910) 5494; many of the native whites are descendants of those Minorcans who were settled at New See also:Smyrna, Florida, by See also:Andrew Turnbull in 1769, and subsequently removed to St Augustine . St Augustine is served by the Florida See also:East See also:Coast railway and by the Florida East Coast See also:Canal, an inland waterway from the St John's See also:river to the Florida Keys . The city stands on a narrow, sandy See also:peninsula, about 12 ft. above the See also:sea, formed by the See also:Matanzas and See also:San See also:Sebastian See also:rivers, and is separated from the ocean by the See also:northern end of Anastasia See also:Island . St See also:George, the chief See also:street in St Augustine, is only 17 ft. wide, and See also:Treasury Street is, at its east end, an See also:alley across which two See also:people may clasp hands . There are many old houses, some of which have balconies projecting above the streets . At its northern end is the old fort of San Marco (now renamed Fort See also:Marion in See also:honour of General See also:Francis Marion), a well-preserved specimen of See also:Spanish military See also:architecture, begun, it is'supposed, about 1656 and finished in 1756 . The St Francis See also:barracks (now the state See also:arsenal) occupy the site of the old Franciscan See also:convent, whose walls still remain as the first See also:storey . In the military See also:cemetery are buried a number of soldiers who were massacred by the Seminoles near the Great Wahoo Swamp on the 28th of August 1835 .

At the end of St George Street and near Fort Marion is the City See also:

Gate (two pillars, each 20 ft. high) ; from this gate a See also:line of earthworks formerly stretched across the northern end of the peninsula . In the centre of the city is the Plaza de la Constitucion, in which are an See also:obelisk erected in 1813 to commemorate the Spanish Liberal Constitution of 1812, and a See also:monument (1872) to citizens who died in the Confederate Army . On this square are the See also:market (built in 184o,partially burned in 1887, and after-wards rebuilt), often erroneously spoken of as " the slave market "; a See also:Roman See also:Catholic cathedral (built in 1791, burned in 1887, and rebuilt and enlarged in 1887–1888) ; Trinity church (See also:Protestant Episcopal) ; and the See also:post office (once the Spanish See also:government building) . In the western part of the city is the beautiful Memorial Presbyterian Church, built in 1889 as a memorial to his daughter, by See also:Henry M . Flagler . Facing See also:King Street (the See also:Alameda) is the magnificent Hotel See also:Ponce de See also:Leon (Spanish See also:Renaissance), of See also:shell-See also:concrete, also by Flagler . The Alcazar (with a large See also:swimming See also:pool fed by a sulphurous artesian well), in the Moorish style, and the Alcazar Annex (with a large See also:sun parlour), formerly the See also:Cordova Hotel, designed and built by See also:Franklin W . See also:Smith, in the Hispano-Moorish style, are also' famous hostelries . In an old building (restored) is housed the See also:Wilson See also:Free Public Library . Another old building houses the collections of the St Augustine See also:Institute of See also:Science and See also:Historical Society, organized in 1884 . St Augustine is the seat of the state school for the See also:deaf and See also:blind (1885) . At St Augustine are See also:car and See also:machine shops of the Florida East Coast railway .

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Oyster See also:canning and fishing are engaged in to some extent, and cigars are manufactured, but the city is important chiefly as a See also:winter resort, the number of its visitors approximating 25,000 a year . The See also:climate is delightful, the mean temperature for the winter months being about 58° F. and for the entire year about 700 F . St Augustine is the See also:oldest permanent See also:settlement of Europeans in the See also:United States . It was founded by Spanish colonists under the leadership of Pedro Menendez de See also:Aviles, who sighted land here in 1565, on the 28th of August, St Augustine's See also:day, whence the name . On the 6th of September he landed and began his fortifications . St Augustine's colonial See also:history is almost identical with the history of Florida (q.v.) under Spanish dominion . In 1586 it was burned by Sir Francis See also:Drake, who captured the fort, and in 1665 it was pillaged by Captain John See also:Davis, an English freebooter . There were frequent conflicts with the English settlements in See also:South Carolina and See also:Georgia, beginning in 1681 with an attack by the Spanish on See also:Port Royal, South Carolina . In 1702 See also:Governor See also:James . See also:Moore of South Carolina captured St Augustine, but not the fort; and there were subsequent expeditions under General James See also:Edward See also:Oglethorpe (see GEORGIA) . When Florida was ceded to See also:England in 1763, nearly all the Spanish inhabitants of St Augustine went to See also:Cuba . Under English See also:control the city prospered, but when in 1783 Florida was re-ceded to See also:Spain, nearly all the English inhabitants See also:left for the Carolinas, Georgia or the See also:West Indies, and it became merely a military post .

In 1821 St Augustine, with the See also:

rest of Florida, passed under See also:American control . The Spanish inhabitants remained . On the 7th of See also:January 1861, three days before Florida passed her See also:Ordinance of See also:Secession, the small United States garrison was compelled by a state force to evacuate; but on the 11th of See also:March 1862 the fort was recaptured without bloodshed by a Federal force, and was held by the Federals until the See also:close of the Civil War . See George R . See also:Fairbanks, The History and Antiquities of the City of St Augustine (New See also:York, 1858); Charles B . See also:Reynolds, Old St Augustine (St Augustine, 1885) ; and D . Y . See also:Thomas, " See also:Report upon the Historic Buildings, Monuments and See also:Local Archives of St Augustine," in vol. i. pp . 333-352 of the See also:Annual Report (1905) of the American Historical Association . ST AUSTELL, a market town in the St Austell parliamentary division of See also:Cornwall, England, 14 M . N.E. of See also:Truro, on the Great Western railway . Pop. of See also:urban district (1901) 3340 .

It is pleasantly situated on a steep slope 2 M. inland from St Austell See also:

bay on the south coast . To the north the high ground culminates at 1034 ft. above the sea in Hensbarrow See also:Downs, so called from a barrow See also:standing at the loftiest point . The church of the See also:Holy Trinity is Perpendicular, with Decorated chancel, richly ornamented in a manner unusual in the county . The town is the centre of a district productive of See also:china See also:clay (See also:kaolin), about 400,000 tons being annually exported by sea to the See also:potteries of See also:Staffordshire and to See also:Lancashire, when it is used in the See also:calico-See also:works for sizing . The deposits of clay became important about 1763, and See also:Josiah See also:Wedgwood acquired mines in the neighbour-hood . Mines were previously worked for See also:tin and See also:copper, and in some cases after being exhausted of ore continued to be worked for clay . The Carclaze mine to the north-east is notably See also:rich; it is a shallow excavation of great superficial extent, which appears to have been worked from very early times . Close to St Austell is a See also:good example of an See also:ancient See also:baptistery, called See also:Mena-cuddle Well, the little chapel being Early English . ST See also:BARTHOLOMEW, or ST See also:BARTHELEMY, an island in the French West Indies . It lies in 17° 55' N. and 63° 6o' W., about 130 M . N.W. of See also:Guadeloupe, of which it is a dependency . It is shaped like an irregular See also:crescent, the horns, enclosing the bay of St See also:Jean, pointing to the N.; its See also:surface is hilly, culminating near the centre in a See also:limestone hill 1003 ft. high .

It is 8 sq. m. in See also:

area, and devoid of forests, and See also:water has often to be imported from the neighbouring island of St Kitts . The surrounding rocks and shallows make the island difficult of See also:access . Despite the lack of water, See also:sugar, See also:cotton, See also:cocoa, manioc and See also:tobacco are grown . The See also:capital, Gustavia, on the S.W. coast, possesses a small but safe See also:harbour . See also:Lorient is the only other town . The inhabitants, mainly of French and See also:negro descent, are English-speaking, and number about 3000 . St Bartholomew was occupied by France in 1648 and ceded to See also:Sweden in 1784 . In 1877 it was again acquired by France at the cost of £11,000 . ST BARTHOLOMEW, See also:MASSACRE OF, the name given to the massacre of the See also:Huguenots, which began in Paris on St Bartholomew's day, the 24th of August 1572 . The initiative for the See also:crime rests with See also:Catherine de' See also:Medici . Irritated and disquieted by the growing See also:influence of See also:Admiral See also:Coligny, who against her wishes was endeavouring to draw Charles IX. into a war with Spain, she resolved at first to have him assassinated . The See also:blow failed, and the admiral was only wounded .

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attempt, however, infuriated the Huguenots, who had flocked to Paris for the See also:wedding of Henry of See also:Navarre and See also:Marguerite de See also:Valois . Charles IX. declared that the See also:assassin should receive condign See also:punishment . Catherine then conceived the See also:idea of killing at a blow all the Huguenot leaders, and of definitely ruining the Protestant party . After holding a See also:council with the Catholic leaders, including the See also:duke of See also:Anjou, Henry of See also:Guise, the marshal de Tavannes, the duke of See also:Nevers, and Rene de Birague, the keeper of the See also:seals, she persuaded the king that the massacre was a measure of public safety, and on the evening of the 23rd of August succeeded in wringing his authorization from him . The king himself arranged the manner of its See also:execution, but it is scarcely probable that he fired upon the Huguenots from a window of the Louvre . The massacre began on See also:Sunday at daybreak, and continued in Paris till the 17th of September . Once let loose, it was impossible to restrain the Catholic populace . From Paris the massacre spread to the provinces till the 3rd of See also:October . The due de