See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1867 (JANUARY), and (MARCH); and 1868-1870.
NEGRO TROOPS, in the American Civil War.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1862 (MAY: SOUTH CAROLINA).
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NEGROPONT:
The Name.
The ancient island of Eubœa received from the Venetians the
name Negropont. "In the middle ages, Eubœa was called Egripo,
a corruption of Euripus, the name of the town built upon the
ruins of Chalcis. The Venetians, who obtained possession of
the island upon the dismemberment of the Byzantine empire by
the Latins, called it Negropont, probably a corruption of
Egripo, and 'ponte,' a bridge."
_W. Smith,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography._
NEGROPONT: A. D. 1470.
Capture and Massacre by the Turks.
See GREECE: A. D. 1454-1479.
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NEGUS, OR NEGOOS, The.
See ABYSSINIA: 15-19TH CENTURIES.
NEHAVEND, Battle of.
See MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 632-651.
NELSON'S FARM, OR GLENDALE, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1862 (JUNE-JULY: VIRGINIA).
NEMEDIANS, The.
It is among the legends of the Irish that their island was
settled, about the time of the patriarch Jacob, by a colony of
descendants from Japhet, led by one Nemedius, from whom they
and their posterity took the name of Nemedians. The Nemedians
were afterwards subjugated by a host of African sea-rovers,
known as Fomorians, but were delivered from these in time by a
fresh colony of their kindred from the East called the Fir
Bolgs.
_T. Wright,
History of Ireland,
book 1, chapter 2._