Oswego Tea
a name given to several species of Monarda, particularly M. purpurea, M. didyma, and M. kalmiana, natives of North America, because of the occasional use of an infusion of the dried 24. He carried on war with the Huns, and drove them from the West; made Bohemia his tributary; deprived the Duke of Bavaria of his estates, and then had to encounter the resistance of the great chieftains of the empire, aided by the King of France. He afterward aided OTHO II.
OTIS the same king against his revolted vassal, 1832, Otho was accordingly declared Hugh the Great, defeated the Danes, and King of Greece in January, again invaded Bohemia. He was then in June, 1835, on his attaining the age January, 1833, and , engaged for 10 years in war with the of 20, he assumed the reins of govern- Hungarians Hungarians, and finally defeated them ment. Otho, however, soon became unusurped the popular with his subjects, owing to his title of Emperor of Italy, Otho entered selection of Bavarians as his cabinet ad- Rome, where he was crowned Emperor by visers, and, also, to the strong pro-Ger- John XII.
That pontiff afterward man sympathies he continually manileagued with Berenger, on which Otho caused him to be deposed, and put Leo VIII. in his place, in 963. On the emperor's return to Germany, the Romans revolted and imprisoned Leo; for which Otho again visited Rome, which he besieged and restored Leo. He next turned his arms against Nicephorus, Emperor of the East, whose army he defeated.
John Zimisces, the successor of Nicephorus, made peace with Otho , who died in 973.
OTHO II., surnamed the BLOODY; born in 955, succeeded Otho I., his father, in 973. His mother, Adelaide, opposed his accession, her party proclaiming Henry, the Duke of Bavaria, emperor. Otho expelled his mother from the court, defeated Henry, repulsed the Danes and Bohemians, and afterward marched into Italy to expel the Saracens, but he fell ill at Rome, where he died in 983.
OTHO III.; born in 980; succeeded Otho II., his father, in 983. The empire was administered during his minority by his grandmother Adelaide, conjointly with the Archbishop of Cologne. At the age of 16 he assumed the reins of government, and went to Italy, which was in a state of confusion, owing to the opposition of different Popes. Otho having re-established order, returned into Germany, and made Boleslas King of Poland. He was obliged again to pass into Italy to quell a revolt, but died soon afterward, in 1002. OTHO IV., called the SUPERB, was the son of Henry, Duke of Saxony, and chosen emperor in 1208. He was excommunicated by the Pope for seizing the lands which the Countess Matilda bequeathed to the Holy See. In 1212 the princes of the empire elected Frederic, King of Sicily, in the room of Otho, who, after struggling against his rival till 1215, resigned his crown to him, and retired to Brunswick. He died in 1218.