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Breckinridge (JOSEPH CABELL an American)

JOSEPH CABELL, an American military officer, born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 14, 1842; a nephew of Gen. John C. Breckinridge of the Confederate army. He practiced law in Danville, Ky., till the beginning of the Civil War, when he joined the Union army. He was made a First Lieutenant in the Regular army Aug. 1, 1863, a Captain in 1874, Brigadier in 1889, and Major-General U. S. A., Feb. 18, 1898. He served in the Santiago campaign, Inspector- General U. S. A., 1899-1903. He was retired in 1903, after 40 years of service. BREDA (bra'da), a town in Holland, province of North Brabant, at the confluence of the Merk and the Aa. Breda was once a strong fortress and of great military importance as a strategical position. From the 16th to the end of the 18th century Breda has an interesting military history of sieges, assaults and captures, with which the names of the BREECH most famous generals of their time, the Duke of Parma, Maurice of Orange, the Marquis Spinola, Dumouriez, and Pichegru, etc., are connected. It was the residence for a time of the exiled Charles II. of England, and it was in the Declaration of Breda that he promised liberty of conscience, a general amnesty, etc., on his restoration. Pop. about 28,000.