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Mchenry (FORT MacGAHAN JANUARIUS ALOY)

FORT MacGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOY- and the value of buildings and equip- SIUS, an American war correspondent; ment to about $9,200,000. The library born near New Lexington, O., June 12, 1844. He was war correspondent of the New York "Herald" during the Franco- Prussian War (1870-1871); accompanied the Russian expedition against Khiva in 1873, and the Arctic expedition on the "Pandora" in 1875. He wrote: "Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva" (1874); "Under the Northern Lights" (1876); "Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria" (1876), which appeared originally during the same year as a famous series of war letters in the London "Daily News." He is regarded by the Bulgarians as the author of their independence. He died in Constantinople, June 9, 1878.