Blubber
the fat of whales and other large sea animals, from which train oil is obtained. The blubber lies under the skin and over the muscular flesh. It is eaten by the Eskimos and the sea-coast races of the Japanese Islands, the Kuriles, etc. The whole quantity yielded by one whale ordinarily amounts to 40 or 50 but sometimes to 80 or more hundred weights.
BLÜCHER, GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON (blücher), a distinguished Prussian General, born at Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dec. 16, 1742. He entered the Swedish service when 14 years of age and fought against the Prussians, but was taken prisoner in his first campaign, and was induced to enter the Prussian service. Discontented at the promotion of another officer over his head, he left the army, devoted himself to agriculture, and acquired an estate. and acc acquired an estate.
After the death of Frederick II. he became a Major in his former regiment, which he commanded with distinction on BLÜCHER on the lower the Rhine in 1793 and 1794. After the battle of Kirrweiler in 1794 he was appointed Major-General of the Army of Observation stationed on the lower of the Army of Observation stationed Rhine. In 1802, in the name of the King of Prussia, he took possession of Erfurt and Mühlhausen. Oct. 14, 1806, he fought at the battle of Auerstädt.
After the Peace of Tilsit he served in GENERAL VON BLUCHER the Department of War at Königsberg and Berlin. He then received the chief military command in Pomerania, but at the instigation of Napoleon was afterward, with several other distinguished men, dismissed from the service. In the campaign of 1812, when the Prussians assisted the French, he took no part; but no, sooner did Prussia rise against her oppressors than Blücher, then 70 years old, engaged in the cause with all his former activity, and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Prussians and the Russian corps under General Winzingerode. His heroism in the battle of Lützen, Bautzen and Hanau, Katzbach, and Leipsic, added to his glory. He was now raised to the rank of Field-Marshal, and led the Prussian army which invaded BLUE France early in 1814. March 31, Blücher entered the capital of France. His King created him Prince of Wahlstadt, and gave him an estate in Silesia. On the renewal of the war in 1815, in chief command, he led his army into the Netherlands. June 16 Napoleon threw himself upon him, and Blücher, on the 16th, was defeated at Ligny. In the battle of the 18th Blücher arrived at the most decisive moment upon the ground, and taking Napoleon in the rear and flank assisted materially in completing the great victory of Belle Alliance or Waterloo. He was a rough and fearless soldier, noted for his energy and rapid movements, which had procured him the name of Marshal Vorwärts (Forward). He died at Krieblowitz, Silesia, Sept. 12, 1819.