[Ar`lington, Henry Bennet, Earl of], served under Charles I., and accompanied Charles II. in his exile; a prominent member of the famous Cabal; being impeached when in office, lost favour and retired into private life (1618-1685).
[Ar`lon] (8), a prosperous town in Belgium, capital of Luxemburg.
[Arma`da], named the Invincible, an armament fitted out in 1588 by Philip II. of Spain against England, consisting of 130 war-vessels, mounted with 2430 cannon, and manned by 20,000 soldiers; was defeated in the Channel on July 20 by Admiral Howard, seconded by Drake, Hawkins, and Frobisher; completely dispersed and shattered by a storm in retreat on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland, the English losing only one ship; of the whole fleet only 53 ships found their way back to Spain, and these nearly all hors de combat.
[Armageddon], a name given in Apocalypse to the final battlefield between the powers of good and evil, or Christ and Antichrist.
[Armagh] (143), a county in Ulster, Ireland, 32 m. long by 20 m. broad; and a town (18) in it, 33 m. SW. of Belfast, from the 5th to the 9th century the capital of Ireland, as it is the ecclesiastical still; the chief manufacture linen-weaving.
[Armagnac], a district, part of Gascony, in France, now in dep. of Gers, celebrated for its wine and brandy.
[Armagnacs], a faction in France in time of Charles VI. at mortal feud with the Bourguignons.
[Armato`les], warlike marauding tribes in the mountainous districts of Northern Greece, played a prominent part in the War of Independence in 1820.
[Armed soldier of Democracy], Napoleon Bonaparte.
[Arme`nia], a country in Western Asia, W. of the Caspian Sea and N. of Kurdistan Mts., anciently independent, now divided between Turkey, Russia, and Persia, occupying a plateau interspersed with fertile valleys, which culminates in Mt. Ararat, in which the Euphrates and Tigris have their sources.