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Oman (CHARLES WILLIAM CHADWICK)

CHARLES WILLIAM CHADWICK, British historian, born in India, 1860; graduate of Oxford; became deputy professor of modern history there in 1900. In 1905 he was elected to OMAR II., the eighth Caliph of the Ommiades, great-grandson of the preceding, and succeeded Solyman in 717. He laid siege to Constantinople, but was forced to raise it, on account of a violent storm, which destroyed a great part of