Brock
SIR ISAAC, a British military commander, born in Guernsey, Oct. 6, 1769; suppressed a threatened muwhich brongniardite may be classified. BROCK, SIR ISAAC, a British milinant-Governor of upper Canada in 1810; took Detroit from the Americans under General Hull in 1812; and was killed at tiny in Canada in 1802; made Lieute- A monument to his memory stands on the W. bank of the Niagara river. and Hartford railroad; 20 miles S. of Boston. It is one of the largest boot and shoe manufacturing places in the country, and beside these articles has extensive manufactories of rubber goods, It contains the villages of shoe machinery and supplies, tools and bicycles. It contains the villages of bicycles.
Campello, Montello, Marshall's Corner, Brockton Heights, Clifton Heights, and Salisbury Square; was settled in 1700; was incorporated as a town in 1821, and chartered as a city in 1881. There are 2 National and 2 savings banks, a pub- Pop. (1910) 56,878; (1920) 66,254. lic library and excellent public schools.
Pop. (1910) 56,878; (1920) 66,254. and county-seat of Leeds co., Ontario, BROCKVILLE, town, port of entry, Canada; on the St. Lawrence river, below the Thousand Islands, and the Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pacific, and the Brockville and Sault Ste. Marie rail roads; 125 miles S. W. of Montreal. It is a port of call for the St. Lawrence steamers. There are manufactories of leather, sulphuric acid, and foundry and machine shop products. It is named for English officer killed in the battle of Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812), an Queenstown. Pop. about 10,000.
English officer killed in the battle of Queenstown. Pop. about 10,000. prominent French family, of Piedmontese origin; its most important members have been the three dukes of the name: (1) FRANÇOIS MARIE, first Duc de, Marshal of France, born in 1671, took part in every campaign from 1689, and son, born in 1718, was the most capable Marshal of France, born in 1671, took the battle of Queenstown® Oct. 13, 1812. :
BROGUE of the French commanders in the Seven Years' War. Made a Marshal in 1797, he entered the Russian service after the Revolution, and died in 1804. (3) ACHILLE CHARLES LEONCE VICTOR, grandson of the last, and son of Prince Claude Victor (born in 1757, guillotined in 1794), born in 1785, was distinguished as a Liberal politician and an earnest advocate for the abolition of slavery.
He was Foreign Secretary (1832-1834) and Prime Minister (1835-1836) under Louis Philippe; after 1851 he lived in retirement, and died in Paris, Jan. 25, 1870. He was a member of the Academy, and published "Ecrits et Discours" (3 vols., 1863), while the fourth and last volume of his "Souvenirs" appeared in 1887.