Sully
Sully names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sully ALFRED, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED, an American military officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1821; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1841, and assigned to the 2d Infantry, with which he took part in the Seminole War; served in the war with Mexico in 1846- 1847; and was then assigned to duty on recruiting service in the North. In 1861- 1862 he served in Washington and in the latter year was made colonel of the 3d Minnesota Volunteers; won distinction in the battles of Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in October, 1862, October, 1862, and later participated in the battle of Chancellorsville. In 1863 he was given command of the Department of Dakota, and greatly distinguished himself in his campaigns against hostile Indians. At the close of the war he was brevetted major-general of volunteers, and brigadier-general, U. S. A., for gallantry during the war; and was promoted colonel of the 10th Infantry in 1872. He died in Fort Vancouver, Wash., April 17, 1879. ŞULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, DUC DE, Marshal of France and first minister of Henry IV.; born in Bosny, France, Dec. 13, 1560; was educated in the Protestant (Calvinistic) faith. He distinguished himself at the battle of Ivri in 1590, where he was severely wounded, and was afterward of great assistance to the king in resisting the intrigues of the League. In 1597 he was appointed controller of finance, and by his excellent administration DUC DE SULLY largely reduced taxation, and eventually paid off a state debt of 300,000,000 livres. He also received many other offices and dignities, and became adviser of the king in all his councils. His industry was unwearied, and he did all he could to encourage agriculture, which he regarded as the mainstay of the state. In 1606 the territory of Sully-sur-Loire was erected into a duchy in his favor. After the murder of Henry IV. (1610) he retired from court and resigned most of his charges. He now occupied himself chiefly with agriculture, and rarely took part in political affairs. He was created marshal by Richelieu in 1634, and died in Villebon Castle, France, Dec. 22, 1641. He left memoirs which have been published in English. RENÉ SULLY - PRUDHOMME, FRANÇOIS ARMAND (sü-lē'prüdum'), a French poet; born in Paris, France, March 16, 1839. He wrote: "Stanzas and Poems" (1865); "The Broken Vase"; "The Stables of Augeas"; "The Wildernesses"; "Impressions of War" (collected 1872); "Revolt of the Flowers" (1874); "Reflections on the Art He was of Versification" (1892). elected a member of the Academy in 1881, and in 1901 received one of the Nobel prizes amounting to about $40,000. He died September, 1907.
Sully THOMAS, an American artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an American artist; born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, in 1783; emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1792; studied painting in Charleston; established himself in Richmond, Va., as a portrait painter in 1803; removed afterward to New York; and in 1809 settled in Philadelphia, where he afterward lived. His reputation as one of the leading American portrait painters is founded on numerous works, the best known of which are the full - length portraits of , and Dr. Benjamin Rush, Commodore Decatur, Thomas Jefferson, and Lafayette. The Boston Museum possesses his cele- of brated picture of " Washington Crossing beds of blue-clayey formation. It is the Delaware." He died in Philadelphia Nov. 5, 1872.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Alfred Sully "greatly distinguished himself in his campaigns against hostile Indians"; the engagement that made his name, Whitestone Hill in Dakota Territory in September 1863, is now generally described as a massacre, with women and children among the several hundred Dakota killed and the survivors' winter food stores burned, and the site is preserved as a state historic site. Sully-Prudhomme's 1901 award, which Collier's records simply as "one of the Nobel prizes amounting to about $40,000," was the first Nobel Prize in Literature ever given, and is most often cited today as the Academy's founding embarrassment, since Tolstoy was passed over for him; his verse is now little read outside France. Thomas Sully's standing as a portraitist has held up, and the Delaware crossing picture Collier's places in "the Boston Museum" — properly The Passage of the Delaware, 1819 — still hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Duc de Sully's entry needs almost nothing: he remains the model of the reforming finance minister, and his memoirs are still the starting point for Henry IV's reign, if read now with more suspicion of their self-portrait.
Written for this edition, 2026.