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"Camboricum was without doubt a very important town, which commanded the southern fens. It had three forts or citadels, the principal of which occupied the district called the Castle-end, in the modern town of Cambridge, and appears to have had a bridge over the Cam, or Granta; of the others, one stood below the town, at Chesterton, and the other above it, at Granchester. Numerous roads branched off from this town. ... Bede calls the representative of Camboricum, in his time, a 'little deserted city,' and tells us how, when the nuns of Ely wanted a coffin for their saintly abbess, Etheldreda, they found a beautiful sculptured sarcophagus of white marble outside the city walls of the Roman town."
CAMBRAI: A. D. 1581. Unsuccessful siege by the Prince of Parma.
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1581-1584.
CAMBRAI: A. D. 1595-1598. End of the Principality of governor Balagni. Siege and capture by the Spaniards. Retention under the treaty of Vervins.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1593-1598.
See NETHERLANDS : A. D. 1674-1678.
CAMBRAI: A. D. 1679. Ceded to France.
See NIMEGUEN, THE PEACE OF.
CAMBRAI, The League of.
See VENICE: A. D. 1508-1509.
CAMBRAI, Peace of.
See ITALY: A. D. 1527-1529.
CAMBRIA. The early name of Wales.
See KYMRY, and CUMBRIA; also, BRITAIN: 6TH CENTURY.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Origin of.
See CAMBORICUM.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. The first settlement.
See MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1629-1630.
CAMBRIDGE, Platform, The:
See MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1646-1651.
CAMBYSES, OR KAMBYSES, King of Persia, B. C. 529-522.
CAMDEN, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1780 .
CAMERONIAN REGIMENT, The.
CAMERONIANS, The.
See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1681-1689.
CAMISARDS, The revolt of the.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1702-1710.
CAMORRA, OR CAMORRISTI, The.
"Besides the regular authorities known to and avowed by the law ... there existed under the Bourbon rule at Naples a self-constituted authority more terrible than either. It was not easy to obtain exact proof of the operation of this authority, for it was impatient of question, its vengeance was prompt, and the instrument of that vengeance was the knife. In speaking of it as one authority it is possible to err, for different forms or branches of this secret institution at times revealed their existence by the orders which they issued. This secret influence was that of the Camorra, or Camorristi, a sort of combination of the violence of the middle ages, of the trades union tyranny of Sheffield, and of the blackmail levy of the borders. The Camorristi were a body of unknown individuals who subsisted on the public, especially on the smaller tradespeople. A man effected a sale of his ware; as the customer left his shop a man of the people would enter and demand the tax on the sale for the Camorra. None could escape from the odious tyranny. It was impalpable to the police. It did not confine itself to the industry of illicit taxation. It issued its orders. When the Italian Parliament imposed stamp duties, that sensibly increased the cost of litigation, that indispensable luxury of the Neapolitans, the advocates received letters warning them to cease all practice in the courts so long as these stamp duties were enforced. 'Otherwise,' continued the mandate, 'we shall take an early opportunity of arranging your affairs.' Signed by 'the Camorra of the avvocati.' The arrangement hinted at was to be made by the knife. ... The Italian government, much to its credit, made a great onslaught on the Camorristi. Many were arrested, imprisoned or exiled, some even killed one another in prison. But the total eradication of so terrible a social vice must be a work of great difficulty, perseverance and time."
CAMP OF REFUGE AT ELY.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1069-1071.
CAMPAGNA, OR CAMPANIA.
"'The name of Campania,' says Pelligrini, 'which was first applied to the territory of Capua alone, extended itself by successive re-arrangements of the Italian provinces over a great part of Central Italy, and then gradually shrank back again into its birth-place, and at last became restricted to the limits of one city only, Naples, and that one of the least importance in Italy. What naturally followed was the total disuse of the name.' ... The term Campania, therefore, became obsolete except in the writings of a few mediaeval authors, whose statements created some confusion by their ignorance of the different senses in which it had at different times been used. An impression seems, however, to have prevailed that the district of Capua had been so named on account of its flat and fertile nature, and hence every similar tract of plain country came to be called a campagna in the Italian language. The exact time when the name, which had thus become a mere appellative, was applied to the Roman Campagna is not accurately ascertained. ... It will be seen that the term Roman Campagna is not a geographical definition of any district or province with clearly fixed limits, but that it is a name loosely employed in speaking of the tract which lies round the city of Rome."
CAMPALDINO, Battle of.
See FLORENCE; A. D. 1289..
CAMPANIANS, The.
See SABINES; also, SAMNITES.
CAMPBELL, Sir Colin , The Indian Campaign of.
See INDIA: A. D. 1857-1858.
CAMPBELL'S STATION, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1863 .
CAMPERDOWN, Naval battle of.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1797.
CAMPO-FORMIO, Peace of.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1797 .
CAMPO SANTO, Battle of .
See ITALY: A. D. 1741-1743.
CAMPO-TENESE, Battle of .
See FRANCE: A. D. 1805-1806 .
CAMPUS MARTIUS AT ROME, The.
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