[Brandy Nan], a nickname for Queen Anne, from her fondness for brandy.
[Brandywine Creek], a small river in Delaware; scene of a victory of the British over the Americans in 1777.
[Brangtons, The], a vulgar, evil-spoken family in Miss Burney's "Evelina."
[Brant, Joseph], Indian chief who sided with the British in the American war; a brave and good man; d. 1807.
[Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles], a French chronicler, contemporary of Montaigne, born in Périgord; led the life of a knight-errant, and wrote Memoirs remarkable for the free-and-easy, faithful, and vivid delineations of the characters of the most celebrated of his contemporaries (1527-1614).
[Brasidas], a Spartan general, distinguished in the Peloponnesian war; his most celebrated action, the defeat at the expense of his life, in 422 B.C., of the flower of the Athenian army at Amphipolis, with a small body of helots and mercenaries.
[Brass, Sampson], a knavish attorney in "Old Curiosity Shop"; affected feeling for his clients, whom he fleeced.
[Brasses], sepulchral tablets of a mixed metal, called latten, inlaid in a slab of stone, and insculpt with figures and inscriptions of a monumental character; the oldest in England is at Stoke d'Abernon, in Surrey.
[Brassey, Thomas], a great railway contractor, born in Cheshire; contracted for the construction of railways in all parts of the world (1805-1870).
[Braun, Auguste Emil], German archæologist, born at Gotha; works numerous, and of value (1809-1856).