Elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain. See ITALY: A. D. 1715-1735; and SPAIN: A. D. 1713-1725, and 1726-1731. ELIZABETH, N. J. The first settlement of. See NEW JERSEY: A. D. 1664-1667. ELK HORN, OR PEA RIDGE, Battle of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 (JANUARY-MARCH: MISSOURI-ARKANSAS). ELKWATER, OR CHEAT SUMMIT, Battle of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861 (AUGUST-DECEMBER: WEST VIRGINIA). ELLANDUM, Battle of. Decisive victory of Ecgberht, the West Saxon king, over the Mercians, A. D. 823. ELLEBRI, The. See IRELAND, TRIBES OF EARLY CELTIC INHABITANTS. ELLENBOROUGH, Lord, The Indian administration of. See INDIA: A. D. 1836-1845. ELLSWORTH, Colonel, The death of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861 (MAY: VIRGINIA). ELMET. A small kingdom of the Britons which was swallowed up in the English kingdom of Northumbria early in the seventh century. It answered, roughly speaking, to the present West-Riding of Yorkshire. ... Leeds "preserves the name of Loidis, by which Elmet seems also to have been known." J. R. Green, The Making of England, page 254. ELMIRA, N. Y. (then Newtown). General Sullivan's Battle with the Senecas. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1779 (AUGUST-SEPTEMBER). ELSASS. See ALSACE. ELTEKEH, Battle of. A victory won by the Assyrian, Sennacherib, over the Egyptians, before the disaster befell his army which is related in 2 Kings xix. 35. Sennacherib's own account of the battle has been found among the Assyrian records. {779} _A. H. Sayce, Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments, chapter 6._ ELUSATES, The. See AQUITAINE, TRIBES OF ANCIENT. ELVIRA, Battle of(1319). See SPAIN: A. D. 1273-1460. ELY, The Camp of Refuge at. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1069-1071. ELYMAIS. See ELAM. ELYMEIA. See MACEDONIA. ELYMIANS, The. See SICILY: EARLY INHABITANTS. ELYSIAN FIELDS. See CANARY ISLANDS. ELZEVIRS. See PRINTING: A. D. 1617-1680. EMANCIPATION, Catholic. See IRELAND: A. D. 1811-1829. EMANCIPATION, Compensated; Proposal of President Lincoln. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 (MARCH). EMANCIPATION, Prussian Edict of. See GERMANY: A. D. 1807-1808. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONS, President Lincoln's. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 (SEPTEMBER), and 1863 (JANUARY). EMANUEL, King of Portugal, A. D. 1495-1521. Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, A. D. 1553-1580. EMBARGO OF 1807, The American. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1804-1809, and 1808. EMERICH, King of Hungary, A. D. 1196-1204. EMERITA AUGUSTA. A colony of Roman veterans settled in Spain, B. C. 27, by the emperor Augustus. It is identified with modern Merida, in Estremadura. C. Merivale, History of the Romans, chapter 34, note.