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NAPOLEON EPPS (1815-1874), and JAMES EPPS (1821-1907) were notable men of their day, the two former as prominent doctors who were ardent converts to homoeopathy, and James as a homoeopathic chemist and the founder of the great cocoa business associated with hi ...

EPPS, the name of an English family, well known in commerce and medicine. In the second half of the i8th century they had been settled near Ashford, Kent, for some generations, claiming descent from an equerry of Charles II., but were reduced in circumstances, ...

... took this title. Joining the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807, they supported Napoleon until 1813, when they transferred their allegiance to the allies; in 1815 they became members of the Germanic Confederation, and in 1828 joined, somewhat reluctantly, the ...

... stotle; " the author of Paradise Lost " for Milton; " the little corporal " for Napoleon I. ; " Macedonia's madman " for Alexander the Great, &c. &c. The opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia; as " a ...

... ia. Sent as Russian attache to Dresden, he published a violent pamphlet against Napoleon I., and was expelled by the Saxon government. He then went to London, and it was universally believed that he betrayed the secret articles of the treaty of Tilsit to the B ...

... were (i) the Little or Bonaparte dock; (2) the Great dock, also constructed in Napoleon's time; (3) the Kattendijk, built in 1860 and enlarged in 1881 ; (4) the Wood dock; (5) the Campine dock, used especially for minerals; (6) the Asia dock, which is in dire ...

... the French colonies. In the beginning of May 1852, when the government of Louis Napoleon required an oath of allegiance from all its functionaries, Arago peremptorily refused, and sent in his resignation of his post as astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes. ...

... department contributed essentially to the victories of the Russians during the Napoleonic wars. All critics agree, indeed, that the Arakcheev administration was the golden era of the Russian artillery. The activity of the inexhaustible inspector knew no bound ...

... f a scarcity of timber for naval purposes, and the increased expense during the Napoleonic war of obtaining foreign supplies, planting received a great stimulus in Britain in the early part of the ipth century. After the peace of 1815 the rage for planting wit ...

... this point. A battle was fought here on the 2oth and 2ist of March 1814 between Napoleon and the Austro-Russian army under Schwarzenberg (see NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS).

... cola (isth, i6th and I7th of November 1796), in which the French, under General Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated the Austrians commanded by Allvintzy (see FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS).

... in very graceful verse. Arnault collaborated in a Vie politiqur ei militaire de Napoleon (1822), and wrote some very interesting Souvenirs d'ttn sexagtnaire (1833), which contain much out-of-the-way information about the history of the yean previous to 1804. A ...

... ed the first part of his Geisl der Zeit, in which he flung down the gauntlet to Napoleon and called on his countrymen to rise and shake off the French yoke. So great was the excitement it produced that Arndt was compelled to take refuge in Sweden to escape the ...

... ught on the list and 22nd of May 1809 between the French and their allies under Napoleon and the Austrians commanded by the archduke Charles (see NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS). At the time of the battle Napoleon was in possession of Vienna, the bridges over the Danube ...

... n-sent rulers, instruments in the hands of Providence, and saviours of society. Napoleon, as well as Wallenstein, believed in his star. Many passages in the older English poets are unintelligible without some knowledge of astrology. Chaucer wrote a treatise on ...

... le more than mediocre. Before the battle of Leipzig (October 16, 18, 19, 1813), Napoleon reproached him with not being the Augcreau of Castiglionc; to which he replied, " Give me back the old soldiers of Italy, and I will show you that I am." In 1814 he had co ...

... it had been in 1805, and the archduke Charles obtained one signal victory over Napoleon in person. Aspcrn and Wagram were most desperately contested, and though the archduke ceased to take part in the administration after 1809 the work went on steadily until, ...

... ol administration was a fateful one in the history of Europe. The year 1812 saw Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the disastrous retreat from Moscow. In the following year Wellington's victory at Vitoria signalled the ruin of the French cause in Spain; while ...

... those at Corwen (1789), St Asaph (1700) and Caerwys (1708). At the close of the Napoleonic wars, however, there was a general revival of Welsh nationality, and numerous Welsh literary societies were established throughout Wales, and in the principal English to ...

... nt in the Lower. House (Corps legislatif); in 1814 he voted for the downfall of Napoleon; in 1815 he retired into private life, and in 1816 he was elected a member of the Institute. He died in Paris on the 2nd of April 1839. Emeric-David was placed in 1825 on ...

... ing a troop of Roman cavalry; the long, austere Pythagorean lustrum of silence; Napoleon on the deck of the " Bellerophon," observing the drill of the English soldiers; the Egyptian doctrine that every man has two pairs of eyes; Empedocles and his shoe; the ho ...

... 796-1814, Emilia was first incorporated in the Italian republic and then in the Napoleonic Italian kingdom; after 1815 there was a return to the status i/ut> ante, Romagna returning to the papacy and its ecclesiastical government, the duchy of Parma being give ...

... up his residence at Ettenheim in Baden, near the Rhine. Early in the year 1804 Napoleon, then First Consul of France, heard news which seemed to connect the young duke with the CadoudalPichegru conspiracy then being tracked by the French police. The news ran ...

... risoned and sent for trial with other conspirators. But as they had appealed to Napoleon, who would not suffer his name to be mentioned, the government had to allow the matter to be hushed up, and the prisoners were acquitted. After the outbreak at Aranjuez on ...

... tian, and among the best known of his architectural productions are the tomb of Napoleon I. in the Invalides and a monument of the revolution of 1848. Etex wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts. The last year of his life was spent at Nic ...

... an be called, and are exposed on the table. Bid Euchre. — This game resembles " Napoleon " (q.v.). It is played with a euchre deck, each player receiving five cards, the others being left face-downwards. Each player " bids," i.e. declares and makes a certain n ...

... oads across the passes in the early part of the igth century was inaugurated by Napoleon's road across the Simplon completed in 1805. A later paragraph will show that modern railways follow much the same, it not exactly the same, routes. On the cany use of the ...

... he grand ducalists established a government in the name of Ferdinand. But after Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo the French returned in great force, dispersed the bands, and re-entered Florence (October 1800). They too committed atrocities and sacked th ...

... House. In the Episcopal cemetery two monuments mark the graves of Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (1801-1847), the eldest son of Joachim Murat, and of his wife Catherine (1803-1867), the daughter of Col. Bird C. Willis of Virginia and a grand-niece of Geo ...

... onarchs of Austria, Russia and Prussia first signed the triple alliance against Napoleon in 1813. It is a curious fact that on the day of the earthquake at Lisbon (ist November 1775) the main spring at Teplitz ceased to flow for some minutes.

... il of state, in which capacity he worked on the civil code. He at this time had Napoleon's confidence, and gave him wholehearted support. He did not entirely conceal his disapproval KH N-H N of the foundation of the Legion of ^&H.->NO,-OHi/' )>&Hi-NO,-»NH,-aHi ...

... le Consvlat: par un ancien conseiUer d'etat (Paris, 1827); Histoire generate de Napoleon Bonaparte (6 vols., Paris and Stuttgart, 1827-28, vol. iii. not printed); Le Consvlat et f Empire voL i. of which is identical with voL vi. of the Histoire de Napoleon (10 ...

... aughter of Philip F. Tinne', a Dutch merchant who settled in England during the Napoleonic wars, but afterwards returned to his native land, and of his wife, Baroness Van Steengracht-Capellan. Her father died when she was five years old, leaving her the riches ...

... ain both on the Elbe and by rail. The fortifications, begun in 1807 by order of Napoleon, were dismantled in 1889-1891. In the vicinity is the royal stud farm of Graditz. Torgau is said to have existed as the capital of a distinct principality in the time of t ...

... of the empire. See Bonnal de Ganges, " Representants du peuple dignitaires par Napoleon . . . Treilhard," in the Revue du monde catholique (7th series, vol. iii., 1900) ; Guyot d'Amfreville, Vie de J. B. Treilhard (Limoges, 1879).

... lands with their metropolises was practically cut off by the British during the Napoleonic wars, the dependence of these colonies upon the American carrying trade became absolute. It was the profits of this neutral trade, notwithstanding the losses to which it ...

... e manner of travelling than in the travels themselves. He had an interview with Napoleon III., who failed to impress him " as the great man which the world in general considers him." Returning to Hungary, he was appointed professor of Oriental languages in the ...

... rico Dandolo after the fall of Constantinople in 1204; they were carried off by Napoleon to Paris in 1797, and restored by Francis of Austria in 1815. Mosaic is the essential decoration of the church, and the architectural details are subordinated to the colou ...

... took part in the campaign of Jena on the side of the Prussians, and during the Napoleonic domination in Germany Saxony furnished strong contingents to the armies of Napoleon, who in return recognized her elector as king, and largely increased his territories. ...