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 ANDREW, JOHN A. - LoveToKnow Article on ANDREW, JOHN A.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1863, at Governor Andrew's own request, the secretary of war authorized him to raise several regiments of negro troops, with white commissioned officers, and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry was the first regiment of free negroes raised in the North.
Governor Andrew's example was quickly followed in other states, and before the end of the year 36,000 negroes had been enrolled in the Union armies.
Notwithstanding his loyal support of the administration during the struggle, he did not fully approve of its conduct of the war, which he deemed shifting and timid; and it was with great reluctance that he supported Lincoln in 1864 for a second term.
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 ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU - LoveToKnow Article on ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andrew, who was now with St Louis, interpreted to the king David's message, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Ilchikdai (Ilchikadai), and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers for the conquest of Syria.
In reply to this the French sovereign despatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Khan Kuyuk; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several othersJohn Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " le sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert a clerk, a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.
The party set out about the i6th of February 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal legate, and rich presents, including a chapel-tent, lined with scarlet cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures.
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 Andrew of Longjumeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew of Longjumeau (also Longumeau, Lonjumel, etc.) was a 13th century French Dominican, explorer and diplomat.
In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Kuyuk Khan; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert "le sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert a clerk, a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.
We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.
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 Andrew Ridgeley
Andrew Ridgeley (born Bushey, Hertfordshire England on January 26 1963) was a British pop singer who formed the pop duo Wham with his friend George Michael whom he met when they both attended Bushey Meads school.
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Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
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 ANDREW II - Encyclopedia Britannica - ANDREW II - JCSM's Study Center
He is directly responsible for the beginnings of the feudal anarchy which well-nigh led to the extinction of the monarchy at the end of the 13th century.
The crusade excited no enthusiasm in Hungary, but Andrew contrived to collect 15,000 men together, whom he led to Venice; whence, not without much haggling and the surrender of all the Hungarian claims upon Zara, about two-thirds of them were conveyed to Acre.
Andrew's last exploit was to defeat an invasion of Frederick of Austria in 1234.
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This insulting behaviour, and the language of the letter with which Andrew reappeared, marked the mission a failure: King Louis, says (Click link for more info and facts about Joinville) Joinville, "se repenti fort."
We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially (Click link for more info and facts about William of Rubruck) William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.
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ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU (Longumeau, Lonjumel, andc.), a French Dominican, explorer and diplomatist.
Andrew, who was now with St Louis, interpreted to the king David's message, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general
Ilchikdai (Ilchikadai), and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers for the conquest of Syria.
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 ANDREW II - Online Information article about ANDREW II
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account of Andrew's government is in L2sz16 Szal ay'sHistory of Hungary (Hung.), vol.
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 ANDREW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU (Longumeau, Lonjumel, &c.), a French Dominican, explorer and diplomatist.
The party set out about the 16th of February 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal legate, and rich presents, including a chapel-tent, lined with scarlet cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures.
This insulting behaviour, and the language of the letter with which Andrew reappeared, marked the mission a failure: King Louis, says Joinville, ``se repenti fort.'' We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruquis in Recueil de voyages, iv.
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 ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867) - JCSM's Study Center
ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867) - JCSM's Study Center
When the war department ruled that thenegro troops were entitled to pay only as "labourers " and not as soldiers, Governor Andrew used all his influence with the president and the secretary of war to secure for them the same pay as white troops, and was finally successful.
Notwithstanding his loyal support of the administration during the struggle, he did not fully approve of its conduct of the war, which he deemed shifting and timid; and it was with great reluctance that he sup-ported Lincoln in 1864 for a second term.
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Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader, evidently
Germany, he found in the heart of "Tartary" (at Talas); the ceremony of passing between two fires he was compelled to observe, as a bringer of gifts to a dead khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.
The legislature dictated “a crimson cross of St Andrew upon a field of white”, and so it remains.
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 Andrew II de Hungría   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
En todas las materias del gobierno, Andrew era igualmente imprudente y casual.
El crusade no excitó a ningún entusiasmo en Hungría, sino a Andrew ideados para recoger a 15.000 hombres juntos, a que él condujo a Venecia; de dónde, no sin mucho el regateo y la entrega de todas las demandas del húngaro sobre Zara, cerca de dos tercios de ellas fue transportado al acre.
La hazaña pasada de Andrew era derrotar una invasión de Frederick de Austria en 1234.
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 First Europeans Traveled to Khan's Court
This welcome overture prompted the immediate dispatch of a second mission to the court of Guyak in 1249, this time headed by a Dominican, Andrew of Longjumeau.
In the absence of a Great Khan, Longjumeau was sent home with an arrogant message to the effect that unless Louis sent a yearly tribute to her court he and his subjects would be destroyed.
In 1249, during Longjumeau's absence, Louis was defeated by the Saracens.
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 Glossary: William of Rubruck
Friar Andrew went himself along two sides of it, the southern and the eastern, and I along the other two, the northern in going from Baatu to Mangu Chan, and again in coming back; and along the western side in coming back from Baatu to Syria.
On the feast of Saint Andrew (30th November) we left this city (of Cailac), and at about three leagues from it we found a village entirely of Nestorians.
Friar Andrew says that he died from some medicine which was given him, and that it was supposed that Baatu had had this done.
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Four Dominican friars, Anselm of Lombardy, Simon of Saint-Quentin, Alberic, and Alexander, joined at Toflis by Andrew of Longjumeau and Guichard of Cremona, were sent on a mission to the Mongol general, Baïju, in Persia, but were received badly, and dismissed on 25 July, 1245, with a haughty letter for the pope.
Louis, King of France, sent the Franciscan, William of Rubruck (known as Rubruquis), to the court of Mangu Khan, successor of Kuyuk; he returned to his convent at Acre (1255), were he wrote an account of his voyage.
1322), and Andrew of Perugia; Montecorvino died in 1333 and was succeeded by Nicholas, a Paris theologian, who arrived in China with twenty-six friars and six lay brothers.
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He accompanied the mission under Friar Ascehn, sent by Pope Innocent IV to the Mongols in 1247; at the Tatars camp near Kars he met a certain David, who next year (1248) appeared at the court of King Cyprus.
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 Hinnebusch: 3 The Missions to 1500   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alexander IV spurred renewed interest in the Tunisian mission, when he called for Dominican and Franciscan volunteers in 1254 and 1258.
On his deathbed King Louis IX singled out Andrew Longjumeau, who had preached in Tunis, as best fitted to head the Tunisian preaching apostolate.
Andrew of Longjumeau, who had headed one of the groups, had hardly returned when Louis IX sent him back to the Tartars.
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 Discoverers Web: The Medieval period
Louis IX, just landed on Cyprus to start the seventh crusade, received a Mongol envoy with just that offer, and a hint that the Chan might be converted to Christianity, in 1248.
An envoy, Andrew of Longjumeau, was sent back to the Mongols, but was not received friendly: Kuyuk had died, and the empress-regent demanded tribute in exchange for peace.
Nevertheless, a further envoy was sent to the Mongols, the Franciscan monk William of Rubruck.
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The Dominican Order, (its formal name, the Order of Preachers, is less common in English; a member is referred as a flfriar) founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century, is one of the great orders of mendicant friars that revolutionized religious life in Europe during the high middle ages.
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They had the better of the match, I remember, and were on top but could not score and we got a late goal to win 2-1."
Born in Longjumeau in the suburbs of Paris, Menez has experienced a rapid rise in the last year having joined Sochaux in 2001.
I spent three years with the club's academy, playing for their various sides, before stepping up to their first team this year," he said.
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 Mongols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louis was overjoyed and sent out ambassadors led by Andrew of Longjumeau bearing a piece of the True Cross for Kuyuk and a message for Eljididei telling him the Crusaders agreed with his proposal.
Not knowing or caring about Kuyuk's plans for expansion into western Asia, she received the embassy rudely, and threatened an invasion of Europe if Louis did not come in person to swear loyalty.
Andrew met up with St. Louis in Acre, where his disappointing report was overshadowed by the fiasco of the Egyptian campaign in which the entire Crusader army was forced to surrender.
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 William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I asked also concerning the town of Talas in which were Teuton slaves of Buri, of whom Friar Andrew had spoken (to me), and concerning whom I had made much inquiry at the ordus of Sartach and Baatu.
Keu had a brother called Siremon, who on the advice of the wife of Keu and her vassals, went in great state toward Mangu as if to do him homage.
He had started out from Cyprus with Friar Andrew, and had gone with him as far as Persia, and he brought certain instruments from Ammoric there in Persia, and he remained there after Friar Andrew.
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 William of Rubruck
Keu had a brother called Siremon [=Shiremün, Güyük's nephew], who on the advice of the wife of Keu and her vassals, went in great state toward Mangu as if to do him homage.
Now it is a truth that such accidents frequently do occur, so one must be very careful to hold one's horse when obliged to get off it.
On account of this (custom) there was a double reason why Friar Andrew and his companion should have gone between fires; they bore presents, and they were destined for one who was already dead, Keu Chan.
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 Notes to Joinville
They claimed that many Mongols were Christians and promised co-operation against the Muslims.
Louis's embassy was led by a Dominican, Andrew of Longjumeau, and returned to the king in 1251.
It is difficult to know how much of what follows was told J by Andrew of Longjumeau and how much represents largely fanciful tales about the Mongols circulating in the West.
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 Names and Addresses
Cohen, Dr. Andrew C. Brandeis University - Department of Anthropology, MS006 Waltham, MA, 02454, USA.
Andrew R. University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Str., Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom.
15 rue de la peupleraie, F-91160 Longjumeau, France.
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 ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU
He accompanied the mission under Friar Ascehn, sent by Pope Innocent IV to the Mongols in 1247; at the Tatar camp near Kars he met a certain David, who next year (1248) appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.
In reply to this the French sovereign despatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Khan Kuyuk; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several others--John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert "le sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert a clerk, a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.
Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed
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