Le Catelet
a village in France, ships, and after 1869 occupied the chair S. E. of Cambrai, on the line leading of geology and natural history in the from Cambrai to St.
Quentin. It was part of the British and French support line that went through the villages of Namoy and Derain opposite of the Hindenburg line in the World War. It fell before the Germans in the spring drive of 1918.
LECH (leh), a right-hand tributary of the Danube, rising in the Alps in Vorarlberg, flowing N. past Augsburg, and after a course of 177 miles joining the Danube a few miles E. of Donauwörth.
It is a mountain stream and not navigable. Near Rain, not far from its mouth the imperalist general Tilly was defeated and killed, April 5, 1632, by the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus.
LECKY, WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE, an Irish historian; born near Dublin, Ireland, March 26, 1838.
He was educated at Trinity College where he graduated B. A. in 1859, and M. A. in 1863. In 1861 he had published anonymously "The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland," four brilliant essays on Swift, Flood, Grattan, and O'Connell.
Later works were "History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe" (2 vols. 1865); "History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne" (2 vols. 1869); and "History of England in the Eighteenth Century" (8 vols. 1878-1890). Later appeared "Democracy and Liberty." He declared strongly against Home Rule.
He died in London, Oct. 22, 1903.