Lerdo De Tejada

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIA (lar'do dā tā-hädä), a Mexican states- Mexican state man; born in Jalapa, Mexico, April 25, supreme xico, April 1825; appointed a judge of the 1855; was Minister of the suprem court in June, Minister Foreign Affairs for a short time two tort time years later; member of Congress in 1861gress in 186 1862 and in 1862-1863; was a companwas a compe ion of President Juarez in 1863-1867, during which time he was successively in 1868-18 It was known to to successive Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was elected chief - jusinister of F tice of the supreme court in December, cted chief- Lin Decemb 1867, and on the death of Juarez, July 18, he succeeded to the presidency; uares, July te presiden 1872, was elected to that post in the following the follow November. In 1876 he was again canand after the as again c didate to succeed himself which was in doubt, he was deand after election, bt, be was clared re-elected by Congress. This acess. This tion resulted in a revolution and Lerdo on and Le was forced to leave the country. He lived in retirement in New York City ew York C till his death, April 21, 1889. LÉRIDA, a town of Spain, capital of ein, expital the province of Lérida on a tributary of the Ebro, 114 miles W. by N. of Bara tribut Linguistic Research" (1834); "Kinship celona, pop. about 25,000. The second by N. of F of the Semitic, city of Catalonia, Lerida has a castle The sec Persian, and Old Egyptian has a ca two churches, one an ancient Byzantino-Moorish edifice, now edifice, used as a barracks, the other a modern Græco-Roman building. It carries on of woolens, cottons, t carries manufactures cott 219, leather, paper, and glass. Near Lerida, Near Ler the Celtiberian Ilerda, Scipio Africanus bio Africa defeated Hanno (216 B. c.); and Cæsar, lieutenants of Pompey (49 b. c.). the (40 b. The Goths made it a bishop's see and op's see held here a council of the Church in the Church in 6th century. In 1300 a university was Diveranty founded here; it is now extinct. The extinct. town has been several times besieged, on besleged the last occasion by the French in 1810. ench in 1 LÉRINS (lā-rang), a small group of ball group French islands in the Mediterranean, 21/2 miles S. E. of Cannes. On Sainte-Marin the pr guérite (the ancient Lerona), 4 miles in Dake of 1 circumference, stands a fortress in which rebellion the Man with the Iron Mask and Marimprisone shal Bazaine were at different times De crossed confined, and from which Bazaine esquently caped in 1874. Normand