MOHEGANS,
MAHICANS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY,
HORIKANS, and STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS;
also, NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1637.
MOHILEF, Battle of.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1812 (JUNE-SEPTEMBER).
MOHOCKS, The.
"This nocturnal fraternity met in the days of Queen Anne:
[1707] but it had been for many previous years the favourite
amusement of dissolute young men to form themselves into Clubs
and Associations for committing all sorts of excesses in the
public streets, and alike attacking orderly pedestrians, and
even defenceless women. These Clubs took various slang
designations. At the Restoration they were 'Mums,' and
'Tityre-tus.' They were succeeded by the 'Hectors' and
'Scourers,' when, says Shadwell, 'a man could not go from the
Rose Tavern to the Piazza once, but he must venture his life
twice.' Then came the 'Nickers,' whose delight it was to smash
windows with showers of halfpence; next were the 'Hawkabites';
and lastly the 'Mohocks.' These last are described in the
'Spectator,' No. 324, as a set of men who have borrowed their
name from a sort of cannibals, in India, who subsist by
plundering and devouring all the nations about them. … Their
avowed design was mischief, and upon this foundation all their
rules and orders were framed. They took care to drink
themselves to a pitch beyond reason or humanity, and then made
a general sally, and attacked all who were in the streets.
Some were knocked down, others stabbed, and others cut and
carbonadoed. … They had special barbarities which they
executed upon their prisoners. 'Tipping the lion' was
squeezing the nose flat to the face and boring out the eyes
with their fingers. 'Dancing-masters' were those who taught
their scholars to cut capers by running swords through their
legs. The 'Tumblers' set women on their heads. The 'Sweaters'
worked in parties of half-a-dozen, surrounding their victims
with the points of their swords. … Another savage diversion
of the Mohocks was their thrusting women into barrels, and
rolling them down Snow or Ludgate Hill. … At length the
villanies of the Mohocks were attempted to be put down by a
Royal proclamation, issued on the 18th of March, 1712: this,
however, had very little effect, for we soon find Swift
exclaiming: 'They go on still and cut people's faces every
night!' … The Mohocks held together until nearly the end of
the reign of George I." [1727]
_J. Timbs,
Clubs and Club Life in London,
pages 33-38._
MOIRA, Lord (Marquis of Hastings), The Indian administration of.
See INDIA: A. D. 1805-1816.
MOJOS,
MOXOS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ANDESIANS;
also, BOLIVIA: ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS.
MÖKERN, Battle of (1813).
See GERMANY: A. D. 1812-1813.
MOLAI, Jacques de, and the fall of the Templars.
See TEMPLARS: A. D. 1307-1314;
and FRANCE: A. D. 1285-1314.
MOLASSES ACT, The.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1763-1764.
MOLDAVIA.
MOLDO-WALLACHIA.
See BALKAN AND DANUBIAN STATES.
MOLEMES, The Abbey of.
See CISTERCIAN ORDER.
MOLINISTS, The.
See MYSTICISM.
MOLINO DEL REY, Battle of.
See MEXICO: A. D. 1847 (MARCH-SEPTEMBER).
MOLINOS DEL REY, Battle of (1808).
See SPAIN: A. D. 1808-1809 (DECEMBER-MARCH).
MOLLWITZ, Battle of (1741).
See AUSTRIA: A. D. 1740-1741.
MOLOSSIANS, The.
See HELLAS;
and EPIRUS.