Marengro : the battle of Marengo, in which Bonaparte

defeated the Austrians under Mêlas, was fought in

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June 1800. Marengo is a village in Italy, in tlie province of Alessandria.

71. 6. l'expédition de Charles-Quint en Afrique : in 1541 Charles V. sent an expédition against the African Moors, but lost a considérable part of his fleet without obtaining any advantage.

8. Charles XII, king of Sweden from 1697 to 1718, wlio liad completely defeated the Russians at Nerva in 1700, invaded Russia in 1707, but was in his turn utterly routed by Peter the Great at Pultawa.

74. 6. Sidney (1622-1678) joined the parliamentary forces, was

nominated one of the commissioners to try Charles L, and in 1659 one of the couneil of state. He went abroad just before the Restoration, and did not return to England until 1677. On the discovery of the Rye House Plot he was arrested on a charge of higli treason, sentenced to death and executed.