Confederates under Johnston, June, 1864

Kenesti (ken'es-te). A tribe of the Pacific division of the At hap as can stock of North American Indians. They live along the western slope of the Shasta Mountains from North Eel River above Round Valley to Hay Fork; along Eel and Mad rivers (down the latter to Low Gap); and also on Dobbins and Larrabie creeks, California. (See At hap as can.) Commonly called Wailakki, though differing from the Wailakki proper. Kenia (kānē-ä), Mount. An isolated mountain in eastern Africa, about lat. 1° 20′ S., long. 37° 35' E. Height, 18,000-19,000 feet. Kenites (ke'nits or ken'its). In Bible history, a nomadic Midi an it ish people, dwelling in the Sinaitic peninsula. Later they were probably absorbed in the Israeli tes. Kenilworth (ken'l-werth). A town in War wicks hire, England, 5 miles north of Warwick. The castle, one of the most admired of English feudal monuments, was founded about 1120, and was long of note as a royal residence. It was besieged and taken by the royalists in 1266 (compare Kenilworth , Dictum of ); was the prison of Edward II. in 1327; was granted to John of Gaunt, and in 1562 to the Earl of Leicester; was the scene of entertainments given to Queen Elizabeth (1575), of which an account is given in Scott's non-historical novel "Kenilworth"; and was dismantled under Cromwell. Among the notable features of the ruins are the Norman keep, the picturesquely traceried banqueting-hall, and the many towers of the outer line of defense. Population (1891), 4,173. Kenilworth. A novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1821. The scene is laid in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Leicester and Counte Amy Robsart are introduced. Kenilworth, Dictum of. An award, designed for the pacification of the kingdom, made between King Henry III. of England and Parliament in 1266, during the siege of Kenilworth. It re-established Henry in all his authority; proclaimed amnesty for the rebels on payment of a fine; annulled the Provisions of Oxford and the conditions recently forced on the king; and provided that the king should keep the charter which he had freely sworn to.