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Read Ebook: History for ready reference Volume 4 Nicæa to Tunis by Larned J N Josephus Nelson
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 3486 lines and 336719 words, and 70 pages"Queipo is of opinion that the talent, the larger unit of Egyptian weight for monetary purposes, and for weighing the precious metals, was equal to the weight of water contained in the cube of 2/3 of the royal or sacred cubit, and thus equivalent to 42.48 kilos, or 113.814 lbs. troy. He considers this to have been the weight of the Mosaic talent taken by the Hebrews out of Egypt. It was divided into fifty minas, each equal to 849.6 grammes, or 13,111 English grains; and the mina into fifty shekels, each equal to 14.16 grammes, or 218.5 English grains. ... There appears to be satisfactory evidence from existing specimens of the earliest Jewish coins that the normal weight of the later Jewish shekel of silver was 218.5 troy grains, or 14.16 grammes." SHELBURNE MINISTRY, and the negotiation of peace between England and the United States. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1782-1783; AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1782 . SHENANDOAH, The Confederate Cruiser. See ALABAMA CLAIMS: A. D. 1862-1865. SHENANDOAH VALLEY: A. D. 1716. Possession taken by the Virginians. See VIRGINIA: A. D. 1710-1710. SHENANDOAH VALLEY: A. D. 1744. Purchase from the Six Nations. See VIRGINIA: A. D. 1744. SHENANDOAH VALLEY: A. D. 1861-1864. Campaigns in the Civil War. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861-1862 ; 1862 , , ; A. D. 1864 , , and . SHENIR, Battle of. A crushing defeat of the army of king Hazael of Damascus by Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, B. C. 841. SHEPHELAH, The. The name given by the Jews to the tract of low-lying coast which the Philistines occupied. SHEPHERD KINGS. See EGYPT: THE HYKSOS. SHERIDAN, General Philip H.: In the Battle of Stone River. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862-1863 . At Chickamauga, and in the Chattanooga Campaign. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 ROSECRANS' ADVANCE, and . Raid to Richmond. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1864 . Raid to Trevillian Station. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1864 . Campaign in the Shenandoah. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1864 . Battle of Five Forks. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1865 . SHERIFF. SCIRGEREFA. "The Scirgerefa is, as his name denotes, the person who stands at the head of the shire, 'pagus' or county: he is also called Scirman or Scirigman. He is properly speaking the holder of the county court, scirgemot, or folcmot, and probably at first was its elected chief. But as this gerefa was at first the people's officer, he seems to have shared the fate of the people, and to have sunk in the scale as the royal authority gradually rose: during the whole of our historical period we find him exercising only a concurrent jurisdiction, shared in and controlled by the ealdorman on the one hand and the bishop on the other. ... The sheriff was naturally the leader of the militia, posse comitatus, or levy of the free men, who served under his banner, as the different lords with their dependents served under the royal officers. ... In the earliest periods, the office was doubtless elective, and possibly even to the last the people may have enjoyed theoretically, at least, a sort of concurrent choice. But I cannot hesitate for a moment in asserting that under the consolidated monarchy, the scirgerefa was nominated by the king, with or without the acceptance of the county-court, though this in all probability was never refused." See, also, SHIRE; and EALDORMAN. SHERIFFMUIR, Battle of. See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1715. SHERMAN, General W. T.: At the first Battle of Bull Run. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861 . Removal from command in Kentucky. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 . Battle of Shiloh. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 . The second attempt against Vicksburg. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 . The final Vicksburg campaign. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 . The capture of Jackson. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 . The Chattanooga Campaign. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 . Meridian expedition. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863-1864 . Atlanta campaign. Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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