General Jourdan, was completely defeated by the Austrians, who then brought their whole force to bear on Moreau. In this emergency, Moreau extricated himself by the retreat through the Black Forest. Napoleon, in 1800, gave Moreau the command of the armies of the Danube and the Rhine; and in the winter of that year Moreau gained the great victory of Hohenlinden. He was afterward suspected of plotting against Napoleon's government, and was banished from France. He lived in the United States till 1813, when he returned to Europe and joined the armies of the allied sovereigns against the French. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Dresden, Aug. 27, 1813, and died in Laun, Bohemia, Sept. 20.
MORECAMBE BAY, an inlet of the Irish Sea, separating the main portion of Lancashire, England, from the detached portion of Furness; length 18 miles; average breadth about 10 miles; it receives the Leven, the Kent, and the Lune.
MOREHEAD, JOHN ALFRED, American clergyman and educator; born in Pulaski co., Va., Feb. 4, 1867. Educated at Roanoke College and graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 1892. Studied at Berlin and Leipsic, 1901–1902. (D. D., Roanoke College, 1902.) Ordained to the Lutheran ministry 1892; Burke's Garden pastorate, Va., 1892; First English Lutheran Church, Richmond, Va., 1894–1898; president, and professor of systematic theology Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1898–1908; president of Roanoke College, 1903; president of the United Synod of the South, 1910-1914.
MOREL, or MORELLE (of the form morel), Morchella esculenta, and edible fungus. It has a pale-brown pileus, deeply pitted all over, with raised anastomosing lines between the depressions. It grows in orchards, woods, and forests. It has an agreeable smell and taste. Also (of the two forms): Solanum nigrum. Called also petty morel, the great morel being Atropa belladonna.
MORELIA (mō-rā′lē-ä), a town of Mexico, capital of the State of Michoacan, 125 miles W. N. W. of Mexico City, in a valley surrounded by high mountains; altitude 6,400 feet. It has a fine cathedral, and a magnificent aqueduct, dating from 1788, for the supply of water. It is in one of the chief sugargrowing districts in Mexico and was the birthplace of General Morelos, after whom the town was named. Pop. about 40,000.
MORELLA (mō-rāl′yā), a town of Spain, 80 miles N. by E. of Valencia. It was the stronghold of Cabrera, the Carlist general, who scaled the castle on Jan. 25, 1839. It was retaken in July, 1840, by Espartero.
MORELLO, a fine variety of cherry with fruit that becomes almost black if allowed to hang.
MORELOS (mō-rā′los), one of the States of Mexico (since 1869), immediately S. of the highest volcanic region of the Anahuac plateau; area, 2,773 square miles; pop. about 185,000. The country is very broken and covered with forests, and is drained by the Mexcala river.
MORETON BAY, an inlet of the set on the E. coast of Queensland, Australia; formed inside the islands of Moreton and Stradbroke, the former 26 miles and the latter 33 miles in length, and both about 5 miles in greatest breadth. The bay is 40 miles long by 17 broad; its S. half is dotted with islands and sandbanks. It receives the six considerable streams, Nerang, Pimpama, Logan, Brisbane, Pine, and Caboolture.
MORGAN, DANIEL, an American military officer; born in New Jersey, in 1736. He took a prominent part in the expedition under Arnold against Quebec, 1775-1776; was in command of the riflemen at the battle of Saratoga, in 1777; and defeated the British under Tarleton at the Cowpens, S. C., in 1781. He died in Winchester, Va., July 6, 1802.
MORGAN, EDWIN VERNON, American diplomat; born at Aurora, N. Y., 1863. Graduated at Harvard, 1890. Assistant instructor in history, 1891-1894. Studied in Berlin, 1891-1892. Professor of history, Adelbert College (Western Reserve University), 1895-1898. Secretary Samoan High Commission, 1899, and subsequently held various consular positions. United States Minister to Korea, 1905; Cuba, 1905-1910; Uruguay-Paraguay, 1910-1911; Portugal, 1911-1912.
MORGAN, G. CAMPBELL, an English clergyman; born Dec. 9. 1863. Ordained in the ministry of the Congregationalist Church in 1889. His most prominent pastorate was that of the Westminster Congregational Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London. From 1901-1904 he was a Northfield Bible Conference Extension lecturer, and is at present pastor of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church. Dr. Morgan has written many works, chiefly on Christianity as interpreted by modern evangelism, such as "A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians," etc.
