See NEW YORK: A. D. 1786-1799.
MORRISTOWN, N. J.:
Washington in winter quarters (1777-1778).
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1776-1777; and 1777 (JANUARY-DECEMBER).
MORTARA, Battle of (1849).
See ITALY; A. D. 1848-1849.
MORTEMER, Battle of.
The French army invading Normandy, A. D. 1054, was surprised
by the Normans, in the town of Mortemer and utterly routed.
The town was destroyed and never rebuilt.
_E. A. Freeman,
Norman Conquest,
chapter 12, section 2 (volume 3)._
MORTIMER'S CROSS, Battle of (1461).
One of the battles in the "Wars of the Roses," fought Feb. 2,
1461, on a small plain called Kingsland Field, near Mortimer's
Cross, in Herefordshire, England. The Yorkists, commanded by
young Edward, Earl of March (soon afterwards King Edward IV.)
were greatly superior in numbers to the Lancastrians, under
the Earl of Pembroke, and won a complete victory.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1455-1471.
MORTMAIN, The Statute of.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1279.
MORTON, Thomas, at Merrymount.
See MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1622-1628.
MORTUATH, The.
See TUATH, THE.
MOSA, The.
The ancient name of the river Meuse.
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MOSCOW: A. D. 1147.
Origin of the city.
"The name of Moscow appears for the first time in the
chronicles at the date of 1147. It is there said that the
Grand Prince George Dolgorouki, having arrived on the domain
of a boyard named Stephen Koutchko, caused him to be put to
death on some pretext, and that, struck by the position of one
of the villages situated on a height washed by the Moskowa,
the very spot whereon the Kremlin now stands, he built the
city of Moscow. … During the century following its
foundation, Moscow remained an obscure and insignificant
village of Souzdal. The chroniclers do not allude to it except
to mention that it was burned by the Tartars (1237), or that a
brother of Alexander Nevski, Michael of Moscow, was killed
there in a battle with the Lithuanians. The real founder of
the principality of the name was Daniel, a son of Alexander
Nevski, who had received this small town and a few villages as
his appanage. … He was followed, in due course, by his
brothers George and Ivan."
_A. Rambaud,
History of Russia,
volume 1, chapter 12._
MOSCOW: A. D. 1362-1480.
Rise of the duchy which grew to be the Russian Empire.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1237-1480.
MOSCOW: A. D. 1571.
Stormed and sacked by the Crim Tartars.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1569-1571.
MOSCOW: A. D. 1812.
Napoleon in possession.
The burning of the city.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1812 (SEPTEMBER);
and (OCTOBER-DECEMBER).
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MOSKOWA,
BORODINO, Battle of the.
See RUSSIA: A. D. 1812 (JUNE-SEPTEMBER).