Several townsLeyden, Gouda, Rotterdam, and some othersmade a last effort for their liberties, and formed a fruitless confederation.

I am no apologist for British rule in India; I think we have neglected vast opportunities there; it was our business from the outset to build up a free and friendly Indian confederation, and we have done not a tithe of what we might have done to that end.

" IROQUOIS, one of the most intelligent branches of the North American Indians, comprised a confederation of five, afterwards six, tribes, among whom the leading place was taken by the Mohawks; their territory lay inland in what is now New York State and the basin of the St. Lawrence.

" "You draw a picture of anarchy that would disgrace a confederation of petty savage tribes.

The merchants of Bruges had taken the initiative in it; but soon all the towns of Flandersand Flanders was covered with townsGhent, Lille, Ypres, Courtrai, Furnes, Alost, St. Omer, and Douai, entered the confederation, and made unity as well as extension of liberties in respect of Flemish commerce the object of their joint efforts.

7. Two major efforts were made to establish a general confederation of nations and empiresthe League of Nations in 1919 and the United Nations a quarter of a century later.

William of Orange headed the confederation of hostile states that dreaded the ascendency and detested the policy of Louis XIV.

Wherefore, since he reflected that almost all the Gauls were fond of revolution, and easily and quickly excited to war; that all men likewise, by nature, love liberty and hate the condition of slavery, he thought he ought to divide and more widely distribute his army, before more states should join the confederation.

A victorious campaign settled matters with Austria, who did not willingly cede the supremacy in Germany, and left the German Imperial confederation without forfeiting her place as a Great Power.

ROSAS, JEAN MANUEL, Argentine statesman, born at Buenos Ayres; organised the confederation, became dictator, failed to force the Plate River States into the confederation, and took refuge in England, where he died (1793-1877).

The endeavors of the reforming Pope, Pius IX (1846), to harmonize his policy with the aims of this party, in order to promote a confederation of the Italian States under papal supremacy, at first seemed to promise the dawn of a new era.

But Napoleon, by a wise and salutary mediation, stepped in between them, and prevented the effusion of blood, by restoring the old confederation, modified by a variety of ameliorations.

" These chiefs set on foot a great Indian confederation.

In 739 B.C. he appeared in Syria to break up a confederation which Uzziah of Judah had formed to resist him, and succeeded in destroying the power of Syria, and carrying its people as captives to Assyria.

For the twenty years succeeding the confederation of the German States in 1820, constitutional freedom made little or no progress in Germany.