MILELLI. 484 MILETUS. take orders, and all.iward^ taught fur several years, llis publications include several volumes of poetry, which sliow much inuigination, but little sustained force, llis volume, Odi payune (1879) was much criticised, not only for its pagan spirit, but on account of the attacks on ]Maiizoni. Other works are: In giovinezza (1879) ; Giocondn (1874) ; llicmaliii (1874) : Po- vertd (1879) ; Discvrpla (1881) : // rupimeitio di Elena (1882): Vanzonierc (1884); 'crdc iiiilico (1885); and Miscellanea (1880), a volume of essays. MILES, Nelson Appleton (1839—). An American soldier, born at Westniinslcr, Mass. He was engaged in mercantile jiursuits in Boston between 1850 and 1801. In September, 1801, he was commissioned captain of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry; in iMay, 1802, he became lieutenanlcolonel of the Sixty-first New York Volunteers, and participated in the Peninsular campaign and the battle of Antietam. In Sep- tember. 1802, he was promoted to be colonel of volunteers, lie served in the battle of Fred- ericksburg, was wounded at Chancellorsville. and took part in the campaign before Richmond in 1804. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers May 12. 1804, and was brevetted major-general of" volunteers in August, 1804. for gallantry at the battle of Reams's Station. On October 21, 1805, he was commissioned major- general of volunteers; in July. 1806. he was ap- pointed colonel. Fortieth Infantry, Regular Army; and on March 2. 1807, he was brevetted brigadier and major-general, I'. S. A., for brav- ery at Chancclloisville and Spottsylvania. Din- ing the succeeding years (iencral Miles's chief service was against the Indians in the West. In 1875 he defeated the Cheyenne. Kiowa, and Co- manche tribes, and in 18'7() the Sioux and Nez Perefs in Montana; and in 1886 he made a cam- paign against the Apaches and compelled their chiefs, Geronimo and N'atchez. to surrender. For this service he received the thanks of the legis- latures of Kansas, Montana. New Mexico, and Arizona. In l.HOn !»1 he suppressed some Indian outbreaks in South Dakota. In 1880 he was commissione<l a brigadier-general. In 1890 he became a major gemral. and on the retirement of General Scliofield. in 1895. he became the com- manding general of the army. During the strike riots of 1894 in Chicago he commanded the United States troops, and later visited the scene of the Gra^eo-Turkish War. ami in 1897 he represented the United States Army at (Jueen Victoria's .lubi lee. During the war of 1898 against Spain he directed in (wrson the occupation of Porto llico. Within a period of two weeks the entire western part of the island was cdeared and the Spanish forces defeate<l. The total loss of the Americans was only four killed and forty wouniled. He was raised to the rank of lii'utenant-general in Febru- ary, 1901. in pursuance of an act of Congress of June 6, innn. In 1902 0.1 he made a tour of in- spection in the Philippine Islands, He published Personal Prrollerlioiis. or from y'eir EnilUiitd to the Golden dale (18971. in addition to militarj' reports and maga/inc articles. MILES GLORIOSTTS, mi'lez gln'ri r.'sfis (T.al.. braggart siddier I . .
entertaining comedy
by Plautus, It is a broail farce, with a very slight plot resting entirely on the exaggerated representation of the leading ohnracter. MILE'SIANS. Tlic original Gaelic colonists of Ireland, so called, according to the bardic accounts, from the three sons of ilil (Latinized Milesius), who, coming in force from the opposite coast of Spain or Gaul, landed on the southern end of the island and defeated the preceding colonists and conquerors, the Tuatha-de Uanaan, in two great battles, thus making themselves masters of the country. The date is indclinitcly placed some centuries before the Christian Kru. Tliis was the last of the traditional prehistoric colonizations of Ireland, the dominant .Milesians fusing with the Tuatha-de-Danaan (q.v.) and Firbolg (q.v.) to form the Irish race as we find it at the dawn of history. The native kings, chieftains, and prominent families up to the ])eriod of the Norman Conquest all claimed direct descent from Milesian ancestry. MILESIAN TALES (MAj;<r(ara. Milcsiaka). The name given to a class of sliort, indecent anec- dotes in ogue at .Miletus and through Asia Minor in the first century n.c. The compilation of six Ijooks of these stories was as<-ril)ed to a certain Aristides of Miletus. Specimens of these works can be seen in the translation of Sisenna, printed in Biicheler's small edition of Petronius (Boston, 1882). MILES O'REILLY, mllz 6-rI'li. The pseu- donym of tlic .American s(ddier and l>oet Charles Graliam Ualpiiie (([.v. I . MILET DE MXJBEAU, mi-'la' dc my'rC/. Louis Marie Axtoine Dkstoi ff. Baron (17.'>0 1825). A French soldier and politician, born at Toulon. He entered the army and was made a c:iptain. As a member of the States-General, in 1789, he voted with the Right; afterwards w commanded the artillery in the army of occu- pation in Italy. In 179:i lu' was banished as a suspect, but was ])ermitteil to return to France two years later, and was made a brigadier-geiu'ral in 1796, lie was War Minister for a few months in 1799, was created a baron by Napoleon in 180!t, was a prefect of Corrt'^ze in 1802 10, ami director of the general War Departiiieiit in 1S14, but retired two years afterwards. He edited the I'crouse journals, which were published under the title Voyafie de La Peroiisc aiilonr du niniide nsr>-H8 (1797'. 2d ed. 1798), and translated into (ierman, Swedish, and English. MILE'TXJS (Lat., from C.k. MiXrjxos. Milelos). AnciiMlly the greatest and most nourishing city of Ionia, in Asia Minor. It was situated on the Latmic Gulf, at the mouth of the Ma'ander, ami was famous for its woolen manufactures and for its extensive trade with the north. The site is said to have been occupied by a Carian town, when the Ionian colonists, under Xeleus, seized the place. niassa<reil the men, and took posses- sion of their wives. Though Un- inhabitants prided themselves on their Ionian descent, the names of their tribes show the iiresence of a foreign element. The city early came to occupy a conim;inding position in the Greek coniiiiercial world, and established many colonies in the north. as Aliydos and Lampsacu's. on th.' Hellespont; Cyzieus, on the Propontis; Siiiope. Ollii:i. Istria. Toiiii. and Panticapa-iim. on the Bla<k Sea. 1 n- der the tvrant Thrasybulus it oirered so resolute a resistance to the I.ydian kings that it was at last received into an alliance on ccpial terms. It took a prominent part in the Ionian revolt (n.C. 500), and after the battle of Lade was besieged
