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the family emigrated to Has ling den in Lancashire (1851); and here six years later the boy lost his right arm through a machinery accident in a cotton factory. In 1866 he joined the Fenian movement, the result being that he was sentenced in 1870 to 15 years’ penal servitude. He was released in 1877; and, supplied with funds from the United States, began some two years later an anti-landlord crusade in Ireland, which culminated in the foundation of the Irish Land League (Oct. 21, 1879). Davitt was henceforward in frequent collision with the government, and from February, 1881, to May, 1882, was imprisoned in Portland for breaking his ticket-of-leave. ee Boer general, born 1849, was one 0 the most popular Boer leaders in the South African War, and one of the ablest opponents of the British.