Monmouth
Monmouth names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Monmouth BATTLE OF, an engagement between the American forces under General Washington
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BATTLE OF, an engagement between the American forces under General Washington, and the British under Sir Henry Clinton, near Freehold, Monmouth co., N. J., June 28, 1778. the British forces which had previously evacuated Philadelphia for the purpose of embarking at Sandy Hook, ordered the advance, under General Charles Lee, to attack the enemy. The Americans were at first successful, but from some unknown cause they were seized with a panic, and fell back to the main body. General Washington, with the latter succeeded in rallying the fugitives, and repulsed the British. The American loss was 69 killed and 160 wounded; that of the British, nearly 300 killed and 100 prisoners, including the wounded.
Monmouth a city and county-seat of Warren co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Warren co., Ill.; on the Minneapolis and St. Louis, Rock Island Southern, and the Burlington Route railroads; 179 miles S. W. of Chicago. It contains Monmouth College (Unit. Presb.), the Warren County Library, a business college, high school, waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railroads, daily railroads, daily and weekly and several National banks. and newspapers, It has manufactories of sewer pipe, cigars, soap, agricultural implements, and one of the most extensive crockeryware plants in the United States. Pop. (1910) 9,128; (1920) 8,116.
Monmouth the county town of Monmouthshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the county town of Monmouthshire, England. Its chief features are the ruined castle of John of Gaunt, in which Henry V. was born; the parish church, dating from the 14th century, and restored in 1882, with a graceful spire 200 feet high; the bridge over the Monnow (1272), with its "Welsh gate," and near it a small Norman chapel; a fragment of a Benedictine priory, with "Geoffrey of Monmouth's study"; the new town hall, built in 1888, and a grammar school (1614). Pop. about 5,500.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's placed the Welsh town "in Monmouthshire, England" in 1921, reflecting a genuine legal muddle that lasted centuries; the Local Government Act 1972, in force from 1974, settled Monmouth definitively in Wales, and its population is now around 10,500 rather than 5,500. The Illinois city has shrunk about as Collier's charted it, from 9,128 in 1910 to roughly 9,000 today, but the "most extensive crockeryware plant in the United States" is gone — stoneware production ended in the 2000s, and Monmouth College remains the town's anchor. On the 1778 battle, the account's "some unknown cause" for the American retreat has a name: Charles Lee, court-martialled and suspended from command that summer. Modern historians also revise Collier's lopsided casualty figures toward rough parity, with many deaths on both sides caused by the extreme heat rather than musketry; the ground is now Monmouth Battlefield State Park.
Written for this edition, 2026.