See ENGLAND: A. D. 1678-1679.
KING'S MOUNTAIN, Battle of (1780).
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1780-1781.
KING'S PEACE, The.
"The peace, as it was called, the primitive alliance for
mutual good behaviour, for the performance and enforcement of
rights and duties, the voluntary restraint of free society in
its earliest form, was from the beginning of monarchy [in
early England] under the protection of the king. … But this
position is far from that of the fountain of justice and
source of jurisdiction. The king's guarantee was not the sole
safeguard of the peace; the hundred had its peace as well as
the king; the king too had a distinct peace which like that of
the church was not that of the country at large, a special
guarantee for those who were under special protection. …
When the king becomes the lord, patron and 'mundborh' of his
whole people, they pass from the ancient national peace of
which he is the guardian into the closer personal or
territorial relation of which he is the source. The peace is
now the king's peace. … The process by which the national
peace became the king's peace is almost imperceptible; and it
is very gradually that we arrive at the time at which all
peace and law are supposed to die with the old king, and rise
again at the proclamation of the new."
_W. Stubbs,
Constitutional History of England,
chapter 7, section 72 (volume 1)._
ALSO IN:
_G. E. Howard,
On the Development of the King's Peace
(Nebraska University Studies, volume 1, number 3)._
_Sir F. Pollock,
Oxford Lectures, 3._
See, also, ROMAN ROADS IN BRITAIN.
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KINGSTON, Canada: A. D. 1673.
The building of Fort Frontenac.
La Salle's seigniory.
In 1673, Count Frontenac, governor of Canada, personally
superintended the construction of a fort on the north shore of
Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Cataraqui, where the city of
Kingston now stands, the site having been recommended by the
explorer La Salle. The following year this fort, with
surrounding lands to the extent of four leagues in front and
half a league in depth, was granted in seigniory to La Salle,
he agreeing to pay the cost of its construction and to
maintain it at his own charge. He named the post Frontenac.
_F. Parkman,
La Salle,
chapter. 6._
KINGSTON, Canada: A. D. 1758.
Fort Frontenac taken by the English.
See CANADA: A. D. 1758.
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KINSALE, Battle of (1601).
See IRELAND: A. D. 1559-1603.
KINSTON, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1865 (FEBRUARY-MARCH: NORTH CAROLINA).
KIOWAN FAMILY, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: KIOWAN FAMILY.
KIPCHAKS, The.
"The Kipchaks were called Comans by European writers. … The
name Coman is derived no doubt from the river Kuma, the
country about which was known to the Persians as Kumestan. …
A part of their old country on the Kuma is still called Desht
Kipchak, and the Kumuks, who have been pushed somewhat south
by the Nogays, are, I believe, their lineal descendants.
Others of their descendants no doubt remain also among the
Krim Tartars. To the early Arab writers the Kipchaks were
known as Gusses, a name by which we also meet with them in the
Byzantine annals. This shows that they belonged to the great
section of the Turks' known as the Gusses or Oghuz Turks. …
They first invaded the country west of the Volga at the end of
the ninth century, from which time till their final dispersal
by the Mongols in the thirteenth century they were very
persistent enemies of Russia. After the Mongol conquest it is
very probable that they became an important element in the
various tribes that made up the Golden Horde or Khanate of
Kipchak."
_H. H. Howorth,
History of the Mongols,
part 1, page 17._
See, also, MONGOLS: A. D. 1229-1294;
and RUSSIA: A. D. 1859-1876.
KIRCH-DENKERN, OR WELLINGHAUSEN, Battle of (1761).
See GERMANY: A. D. 1761-1762.
KIRGHIZ, Russian subjugation of the.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1859-1876.
KIRIRI, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: GUCK OR COCO GROUP.