NAPLES: A. D. 1808.
The crown resigned by Joseph Bonaparte (now king of Spain),
and conferred on Joachim Murat.
See SPAIN: A. D. 1808 (MAY-SEPTEMBER).
NAPLES: A. D. 1808-1809.
Murat on the throne.
Expulsion of the English from Capri.
Popular discontent.
Rise of the Carbonari.
Civil war in Calabria.
See ITALY: A. D. 1808-1809.
NAPLES: A. D. 1814.
Desertion of Napoleon by Murat.
His treaty with the Allies.
See ITALY: A. D. 1814.
NAPLES: A. D. 1815.
Murat's attempt to head an Italian national movement.
His downfall and fate.
Restoration of the Bourbon Ferdinand.
See ITALY: A. D. 1815.
NAPLES: A. D. 1815.
Accession to the Holy Alliance.
See HOLY ALLIANCE.
NAPLES: A. D. 1820-1821.
Insurrection.
Concession of a Constitution.
Perjury and duplicity of the king.
Intervention of Austria to overthrow the Constitution.
Merciless re-establishment of despotism.
See ITALY: A. D. 1820-1821.
NAPLES: A. D. 1820-1822.
The Congresses of Troppau, Laybach and Verona.
Austrian intervention sanctioned.
See VERONA, THE CONGRESS OF.
NAPLES: A. D. 1830.
Death of Francis I.
Accession of Ferdinand II.
See ITALY: A. D.1830-1832.
NAPLES: A. D. 1848.
Abortive revolt.
See ITALY: A. D. 1848-1849.
NAPLES: A. D. 1859-1861.
Death of Ferdinand II.
Accession of Francis II.
The overthrow of his kingdom by Garibaldi.
Its absorption in the kingdom of Italy.
See ITALY: A. D. 1856-1859; and 1859-1861.
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NAPO,
QUIJO, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ANDESIANS.
NAPOLEON I.:
His career.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (JULY-DECEMBER);
and 1795 (OCTOBER-DECEMBER), to 1815 (JUNE-AUGUST).
NAPOLEON III.:
His career as conspirator, President of the
French Republic, and Emperor.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1830-1840;
and 1848 (APRIL-DECEMBER), to 1870 (SEPTEMBER).
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NARBONNE:
Founding of the city.
"In the year B. C. 118 it was proposed to settle a Roman
colony in the south of France at Narbo (Narbonne). … The
Romans must have seized some part of this country, or they
could not have made a colony, which implies the giving of land
to settlers. Narbo was an old native town which existed at
least as early as the latter part of the sixth century before
the Christian era. … The possession of Narbo gave the Romans
easy access to the fertile valley of the Garonne, and it was
not long before they took and plundered Tolosa (Toulouse),
which is on that river. … Narbo also commanded the road into
Spain."
_G. Long,
Decline of the Roman Republic,
volume 1, chapter 22._
NARBONNE: A. D. 437.
Besieged by the Goths.
See GOTHS (VISIGOTHS): A. D. 419-451.
NARBONNE: A. D. 525-531.
The capital of the Visigoths.
See GOTHS (VISIGOTHS): A. D. 507-711.
NARBONNE: A. D. 719.
Capture and occupation by the Moslems.
See MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 715-732.
NARBONNE: A. D. 752-759.
Siege and recovery from the Moslems.
See MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 752-759.
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NARISCI, The.
See MARCOMANNI.
NARRAGANSETTS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY;
RHODE ISLAND: A. D. 1636;
and NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1637, 1674-1675,
1675, and 1676-1678.
NARSES, Campaigns of.
See ROME: A. D. 535-553.
NARVA, Siege and Battle of (1700).
See SCANDINAVIAN STATES (SWEDEN): A. D. 1697-1700.
NARVAEZ, Expedition of.
See FLORIDA: A. D. 1528-1542.
NASEBY, Battle of.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1645 (JUNE).
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee: A. D. 1779-1784.
Origin and name of the city.
See TENNESSEE: A. D. 1785-1796.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee: A. D. 1862.
Occupied by the Union forces.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1862 (JANUARY-FEBRUARY: KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE);
and (FEBRUARY-APRIL: TENNESSEE).
NASHVILLE, Tennessee: A. D. 1864.
Under siege.
Defeat of Hood's army.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A D. 1864 (DECEMBER: TENNESSEE).
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NASI, The.
This was the title of the President of the Jewish Sanhedrin.
NASR-ED-DEEN, Shah of Persia, A. D. 1848-.
NASSAU, The House of.
"We find an Otho, Count of Nassau, so long ago as the
beginning of the 10th century, employed as general under the
Emperor Henry I … in subduing a swarm of savage Hungarians,
who for many years had infested Germany. … The same
fortunate warrior had a principal hand afterwards in reducing
the Vandals, Danes, Sclavonians, Dalmatians, and Bohemians.
Among the descendants of Otho of Nassau, Walram I and III more
particularly distinguished themselves in the cause of the
German Emperors; the former under the victorious Otho I, the
latter under Conrad II. It was to these faithful services of
his progenitors that, in a great measure, were owing the large
possessions of Henry, surnamed the Rich, third in descent from
the last mentioned Walram, and grandfather to the brave but
unhappy Emperor Adolphus [deposed and slain at the battle of
Gelheim, in 1298.]
See GERMANY: A. D. 1273-1308.
The accession, by marriage, of Breda, Vianden, and other
lordships in the Netherlands, gave the Nassaus such a weight
in those provinces that John II of Nassau-Dillemburg, and his
son Engelbert II, were both successively appointed Governors
of Brabant by the Sovereigns of that State [Charles the Bold,
Duke of Burgundy, and his son-in-law, the Emperor Maximilian].
… The last, who was likewise honoured with the commission of
Maximilian I's Lieutenant-General in the Low-Countries,
immortalized his fame, at the same time that he secured his
master's footing there, by the glorious victory of
Guinegaste,"—or Guinegate, or the "Battle of the Spurs."
See FRANCE: A. D. 1513—1515.
_J. Breval,
History of the House of Nassau,
pages 2-3._
Engelbert II. dying childless, "was succeeded by his brother
John, whose two sons, Henry and William, of Nassau, divided
the great inheritance after their father's death. William
succeeded to the German estates, became a convert to
Protestantism, and introduced the Reformation into his
dominions. Henry, the eldest son, received the family
possessions and titles in Luxembourg, Brabant, Flanders and
Holland, and distinguished himself as much as his uncle
Engelbert, in the service of the Burgundo-Austrian house. The
confidential friend of Charles V., whose governor he had been
in that Emperor's boyhood, he was ever his most efficient and
reliable adherent. It was he whose influence placed the
imperial crown upon the head of Charles. In 1515 he espoused
Claudia de Chalons, sister of Prince Philibert of Orange, 'in
order,' as he wrote to his father, 'to be obedient to his
imperial Majesty, to please the King of France, and more
particularly for the sake of his own honor and profit.' His
son Rene de Nassau-Chalons succeeded Philibert. The little
principality of Orange, so pleasantly situated between
Provence and Dauphiny, but in such, dangerous proximity to the
seat of the 'Babylonian captivity' of the popes at Avignon,
thus passed to the family of Nassau. The title was of high
antiquity. Already in the reign of Charlemagne, Guillaume au
Court-Nez, or 'William with the Short Nose,' had defended the
little town of Orange against the assaults of the Saracens.
The interest and authority acquired in the demesnes thus
preserved by his valor became extensive, and in process of
time hereditary in his race. The principality became an
absolute and free sovereignty, and had already descended, in
defiance of the Salic law, through the three distinct families
of Orange, Baux, and Chalons. In 1544, Prince Rene died at the
Emperor's feet in the trenches of Saint Dizier. Having no
legitimate children, he left all his titles and estates to his
cousin-german, William of Nassau [the great statesman and
soldier, afterwards known as William the Silent], son of his
father's brother William, who thus at the age of eleven years
became William the Ninth of Orange."
_J. L. Motley,
The Rise of the Dutch Republic,
part 2, chapter 1 (volume 1)._
The Dutch branch of the House of Nassau is now represented by
the royal family of Holland. The possessions of the German
branch, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, after
frequent partitioning, was finally gathered into a duchy,
which Prussia extinguished and absorbed in 1866.
See GERMANY: A. D. 1866.
ALSO IN:
_E. A. Freeman,
Orange
(Macmillan's Magazine, February, 1875)._
_Baron Maurier,
Lives of all the Princes of Orange._
See, also, ORANGE;
and GUELDERLAND: A. D. 1079-1473.