_G. W. Kitchin, History of France, volume 1, book 3, chapter 6, with foot-note._ TWELVE TABLES OF THE LAW, The. See ROME: B. C. 451-449. TWENTY-SECOND PRAIRIAL, Law of the. See FRANCE: A. D. 1794 (JUNE-JULY). TWIGGS, General, Treacherous surrender of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1860-1861 (DECEMBER-FEBRUARY). TWIGHTWEES, OR MIAMIS, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY, also ILLINOIS AND MIAMIS, and SACS, ETC. TWILLER, Wouter Van, The governorship of. See NEW YORK: A. D. 1638-1647. {3159} TWO SICILIES, The Kingdom of the. The kingdom founded in Southern Italy and Sicily by the Norman conquest in the 11th century (see ITALY: A. D. 1000-1090, and 1081-1194) maintained its existence until recent times, sometimes as a unit, and sometimes divided into the two dominions, insular and peninsular, of Sicily and Apulia, or Naples. The division occurred first after the rising against the French and the massacre known as "the Sicilian Vespers". See ITALY: A. D. 1282-1300. The crown of Sicily was then acquired by Peter, king of Aragon, succeeded by his son Frederick. Charles of Anjou and his successors were left in possession of the kingdom of Naples, alone, although still claiming Sicily in union with it. "As the king who reigned at Naples would not give up his right to Sicily, … his kingdom is often called Sicily as well as the Island Kingdom; and so when at last the two kingdoms became one [again-see ITALY: A. D. 1412-1447], the strange name of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies arose." _W. Hunt, History of Italy, page 93._ See, also, NAPLES, and SICILY. TYCHE. One of the variously named parts of the ancient city of Syracuse, Sicily. Its position was northwest of Achradina. TYCOON, SHOGUN. See JAPAN: SKETCH OF HISTORY. TYLER. John: Vice-Presidential election. Succession to the Presidency. Administration. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1840, to 1845. TYLER, Wat, The Rebellion of. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1381. TYLIS, Celtic Empire of. "The empire of Tylis in the Haemus, which the Celts, not long after the death of Alexander [the Great], and nearly at the same time with their permanent settlement in Asia Minor, had founded in the Moeso-Thracian territory, destroyed the seed of Greek civilisation within its sphere, and itself succumbed during the Hannibalic war to the assaults of the Thracians, who extirpated these intruders to the last man." _T. Mommsen, History of Rome, book 8, chapter 7._ TYNDARIS, Naval battle at (B. C. 257). See PUNIC WARS: THE FIRST. TYNWALD, Court of. See MANX KINGDOM; and, also, THING. TYRANTS, Greek.