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INGLIS. 62G INGBAH. 1781 went with liis regiment to America, where lie remained for ten years. In 1793 he returned to Englund. He took part in the eain|iai^M in J'laiulers, and three years afterwards served with distinction at the capture of Saint l.ucia. As commander of the Kirst Battalion of the Fifty- seventh Keyiment lie went with it to the Penin- sula in 1809. where he participated in the battles of Busaeo and Albuera. At AUiuera he com- manded the Kifty-seventh, which behaved with the utmost gallantry and sutfiied severe losses. Inglis was severely wounded, but afterwards fought in several other engajiements. including that at Ortcz, in French territory, in 1814. After the war he was made a lieutenant-general and was kiiij;hted. INGOLDSBY, In'gAlz bl. Sir Ricuabd ( ?- ICS.'i). A British soldier. He was born in Buck- inghamshire, and as a kinsman of Oliver Crom- well, naturally espoused the Parliamentary cause at the beginning of the Civil War. In 1645 he commanded a regiment which took part in several actions, and garrisoned Oxford. At that time lie apparently sympathized with the radical faction, which was bent upon inllicting the ex- treme penalty upon Charles I. lie was a member of the court which tried the King, and his sig- nature was affixed to the death warrant. After Oliver Cromwell's death he at lirst heartily sup- ported Ricluird Cromwell, but after the latter's short and weak protectorate was ended, Ingolds- by was qviile willing to make terms with Cliarles II., and. having loudly asserted his unwilling j)arlicipation in tlic trial and execution of the King, was exempted from the punishment suf- fered by the other regicides. During the interval in which General Monk was dictator, he arrested (Jeneral Lambert and dispersed his s^ildiers. Charles II. conferred knighthood upon him. In- goldsby was a member of Parliament during part of Cromwell's regime, sat in the Protector's House of Lords, and was also memlier for Ayles- bury during most of the reign of Charles II. INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. A well known col- lection of legends, written by the Rev. Richard Harris Barhani. under the pseudonym of Thomas Jngoldsby, originally published in Itcnllrij'x Mil- ccUany and republished in three .series from 1840 to 1852. The legends, in both prose and verse, are distinguished by quaint humor and originality, and the metrical portions by musical quality and flexibility. Among the best-known of the selections are "The Witches' Frolic" and "The Jackdaw of Rheims." INGOLSTADT, tng'rtl-stjU. An ancient forti- fied tiiwn of Bavaria, situated on the left bank of the Danube, 40 miles by rail from Ratisbon (Map: Germany, D 4). Its most noteworthy buildings are the fiftecnth-eentury Frauenkirche, the old castle, and the old university buililings. The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472, and by the end of the sixteentli century, when it was a noted seat of .Jesuit theology-, had about 4000 students. It was transferred in 1800 to Landshut. and in 1826 to Munich. In- golstadt contains a number of establishments for the manufacturing of ammunition, and a school of military ensineering. Population, in 1800, 17.040: in" 1000. 22.207. mostly Catholics. In- golstadt existed as early as the ninth century. It received municipal rights at the beginning of the fourteenth century and was fortified in the first half of the sixteenth century. The tov n was besieged by Gustavus Adolphus in I6.'t2. an>l its fortifications were liestnncd by the Frencli after a three months' siege in 1800. They were rebuilt during the first half of the nineteenth century. IN'GOMAR THE BARBA'RIAN. A play by .Maria . ne Lnvcll (IS.'il). ailaptcd from tlio German Uvr Suliii il<r Wildnin of Frieilriih Halm. INGOUF, Jls'goT.f, FraN(;ois Rouekt, the ■^ipuiiger (1747-1812). A French engraver, born in Paris. He studied with J. J. Flipart, and be- came known principally as a vignettisf. He executed several engravings after Raphael, Ribcra. IVna/.ech, and I,e Barliier. and made portraits of Rousseau, .Marivaux, Flipart, and others. INGBAHAM, in'grii-<im, Dincan Natha.n- IBL (1S02-'J1). An American naval ofiirer, born in Charleston, S. C., the son of a Nathaniel In- graham who ser'ed under .lohn Paul Jones in the lion llDuimr Hichnrd. In 1812 he was ap- pointed .a midshipman in the I'nited States Xavy, and served through the second war with (!r<:it Britain. In 1825 lie became a lieutenant, and in 1841 a commander. He was one of the ollicers in Commodore David Porter's expedition against the Caribbean pirates, and soon after the close of the Mexican War he was placed in conmiand of the HninI Louis, on the Mediterranean station. His firm stand against the attempt made by .u:-tria to seize ^Iartin Koszta. who had par- ticipated in (he Hungarian Revolution of 181S. and hail taken steps toward becoming a citizen of the United States, was supported by the Uniied States, and aroused great popular enthusiasm. (See Koszta Affair.) In 1855 he was eom- niissioned captain, but at the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned from the service, and be- came chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Construc- tion, and Repair of the Confederate Xavy, in which he rose to the rank of commodore. INGBAHAM, .Jo.sr.Pii Holt (1809-GO). An .American novelist, born at Portland, Maine. He went to sea when he was a boy, served in South .American revolutions, and after graduation at Bowdoin in 1S.32 became a teacher in Natchez. Miss. His The Soiilhiccst by n Yunkee (IS.'Hi) was a great success, and was quickly followed by sensational volumes like: Lafitte; Burton, or the Sieges; Cuptnin Kyd; The American Loumiir (1830)'; and The flunchhiick rind the Uouc (1843). In 1855 he took orders in the Episcopal Church, and settled at Holly Springs, Miss., where he wrote his popular biblical series, in- cluding: The Prince of the Bouse of Daiid (18.55); 77ic Pillar of Fire (1859); and Thr Throne of Doiid (1800). INGRAILED. See E.vgbailed. INGBAM, In'grom, John Kells (1823—). An Knglisli economist and Positivist, born in Donegal, Ireland, and educated at Trinity Col- lege, Dublin. He was fellow there (1840). pro- fessor of oratory and English literature (18.52), regius professor of Greek (1800), and librarian (1879). He wrote: A History of Political Economy (reprinted, 1888, from the Encyclo- pa-dia liritnnnirn) ; On the Present Positioti and Prospects of Polilieal f:conomy (1878) ; Outlines of the History of Keliyion; History of Slavery and Serfdom (1888) ; Sonnets and Other Poems