Bismarck of Asia.
Li Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman, was so called.
Black Act.
An Act passed in 1722 to put a stop to the depredations of certain persons who frequented Epping Forest in disguise and killed the deer. The Act was repealed in 1827.
Black Agnes.
Agnes, wife of the Earl of March, who was distinguished for her gallant defence of Dunbar against the English in 1339.
Black Assize.
The assize held at Oxford in July, 1577, when an outbreak of typhus fever carried off three hundred persons, including many of the officials and jurors attending the court.
Black Bands.
A body of German soldiers enlisted by Louis XII of France, and employed in the Italian wars of the sixteenth century.