Three Bishoprics, those of Lorraine, Metz, and Verdun taken from the
Germans by Henry II. of France in 1554 and recovered in 1871
Thundering Legion, the Roman legion which overcame Marcomanni in 179
A.D., their extreme thirst having been relieved by a thunderstorm sent
in answer to the prayers of Christian soldiers in its ranks
Thurtell, John, a notorious boxer and gambler (b. 1794) who was hanged
at Hertford on Jan. 9, 1824, for the brutal murder of William Weare, one
of his boon companions
Tickell, Thomas, a politician, minor poet, and occasional contributor to
the Spectator and the Guardian (1686-1740)
Tillotson, John Robert. Trained as a Puritan, he conformed to the
Episcopal Church at the Restoration and ultimately became Archbishop of
Canterbury a man of tolerant and moderate views like Baxter and Burnet,
and unlike Collier
Tilly, Johann Tserklaes, Count of, the great Catholic general of the
Thirty Years War; mortally wounded at Rain in 1632
Tiresias, in Greek mythology a soothsayer on whom Zeus conferred the
gift of prophecy in compensation for the blindness with which Athens had
struck him
Treatise on the Bathos, “The Art of Sinking in Poetry,” a work projected
by Arbuthnot, Swift, and Pope, and mainly written by the last-named