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EUGENE, a city and the county-seat of Lane county, Oregon, U.S.A., on the Willamette river, at the head of navigation, about 125 m. S. of Portland. Pop. (1900) 3236, of whom 237 were foreign-born; (1910 Federal census) 9009. Eugene is served by the Southern Pa ...

EUGENE OF SAVOY [FRANCOIS EUGENE], PRINCE (16631736), fifth son of Prince Eugene Maurice of Savoy-Carignano, count of Soissons, and of Olympia Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, was born at Paris on the i8th of October 1663 . Originally destined for the churc ...

... e Prussian contingent served under Prince Louis of Baden and subsequently under Eugene, and Leopold himself won great glory by his conduct at Blenheim. In 1705 he was sent with a Prussian corps to join Prince Eugene in Italy, and on the i6th of August he displ ...

ARAM, EUGENE (1704-1750), English scholar, but more famous as the murderer celebrated by Hood in his ballad, the Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Bulwcr Lytton in his romance of Eugene Aram, was born of humble parents at Ramsgill, Yorkshire, in 1704. He received l ...

... intervals, either alone or in collaboration with other writers — Jules Sandeau, EugeneMarie Labiche, Ed. Foussier — he produced plays which were in their way eventful. Le FUs de Ciboyer (1862) — which was regarded as an attack on the clerical party in France, ...

... ous increase in her establishments. The wars of the time of Montecucoili and of Eugene were followed by that of the Polish Succession, the two Turkish wars, and the three great struggles against Frederick the Great. Thus in 1763 the army had been almost contin ...

... War of the IN.Iish Succession on the Rhine where he served under his old chief Eugene and held the office o field marshal of the Km, With the death of Frederick William in 1740, Frederick succeeded to the Prussian throne, and a few months later tool place the ...

... tized domain under the Bavarian crown, by the king of Bavaria to his son-in-law Eugene de Beauharnais, ex-viceroy of Italy, henceforth styled duke of Leuchtenberg. In 1855 it reverted to the Bavarian crown.

... y the Turks (1071) she was compelled to vacate the throne in EUDOXIA LOPUKHINA— EUGENE OF SAVOY favour of her son Michael and retire to a convent, where she died. The dictionary of mythology entitled 'latvia (" Collection of Violets "), which formerly used to ...

... is quest of the unknown he devoured the novelists of his day, chiefly Dumas and Eugene Sue. He already thought deeply on the object of existence; forming new ideals, aspiring to noble deeds, seeing himself in imagination now a passionate lover, now a leader of ...

... business of the railways concerned. The president of the striking organization, Eugene V. Debs, was imprisoned for contempt of court and conspiracy. 368. The most immediate political effect of the panic was upon the silver issue. Soon after the outbreak of the ...

... inning of the igth century to make room for the ball-room built by Napoleon for Eugene Beauharnais. The churches of San Giorgio c"ore"esMaggiore and of the Redentore, a votive church for liberation from the plague, are both by Palladia In 1632 Baldassare Longh ...

VERBOECKHOVEN, EUGENE JOSEPH (1799-1881), Belgian painter, was born at Warneton in West Flanders, and received instruction in drawing and modelling from his father, the sculptor Barthelemy Verboeckhoven. Subsequently he settled in Brussels and devoted himself ...