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MABCH 117 MARCOMANNI land and Wales. (Jeneva is situated in the Marches of France, Savoy and Switzerland. MARCH, a musical composition, chiefly for military bands, with wind instru- ments, intended to accompany the march- ing of troops. There are slow and quick marches, and marches peculiar to differ- ent countries. Marches are also intro- duced into oratorios, the best-known examples being the "Dead March" from the oratorio of "Saul" and Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." IIARCH, the first month of the Roman year, and the third according to our present calendar, consisting of 31 days. It was considered as the first month of the year in England till the change of style in 1752, and the legal year was reckoned from March 25. Its last three days (old style) were once popularly sup- posed to have been "borrowed" by March from April, and are proverbially stormy. MARCH (mar/i), the principal river of Moravia, rising on the boundary be- tween that country and Prussian Silesia, and flowing 214 miles S. to the Danube, which it joins 6 miles above Pressburg. It receive.^ on the right the Thaya. In its lower course it forms the boundary between Austria and Hungary. It is navigable for small boats from Coding, 80 miles from its mouth. MARCH, PEYTON CONWAY, army officer; born at Easton, Pa., in 1864, graduated from Lafayette College in 1887. He then spent a year at the United States Military Academy, ten years later graduating from the Artillery School, Fort Monroe. He commanded the Astor Battery in 1898, and was at the head of the American forces in action at Tilad Pass, Luzon, P. I., in 1899, in which General Cregorio del Pilar was killed. During this expedition Ceneral Concep- cion surrendered to Major March, and Aguinaldo's wife and her escort were captured. In 1917 he was appointed army artillery commander of the Amer- ican Expeditionary Forces in France, and in February, 1918, was made chief of staff in the United States with the rank of Major General in the permanent es- tablishment. MARCHAND, JEAN BAPTISTE (mar-shon^r') , a French military officer; born in Thoissey, Ain, France, Nov. 22, 1863. He entered the army in 1883. He spent some time in a military school, and was then sent to Africa. His first service was in Senegambia, and as early as 1890 he was dispatched on exploring expedi- tions to the sources of the Niger and other districts. He established in 1898 the post of Fashoda on the White Nile, and refused to withdraw on command of the British until ordered to do so by his own government. In 1899 he received a tremendous popular ovation in Paris. He became a colonel in 1902, but retired in 1904. He performed useful service in the World War. MARCHES, THE, a territory of Italy, comprising a region Ijan^ between the Apennines and the Adriatic, and divided into four provinces — Urbino and Pesaro*, Ancona, Macerata, and Ascoli; total area, 3,749 square miles; pop. about 1,175,000. MARCIANUS (mar-shi-a'nus). Em- peror of Rome after the death of The- odosius II., in 450. He was a Thracian of obscure origin. His reign, which lasted but six years, was marked by peaceful and energetic measures. He died in 457. MARCOMANNI (-man'ni), a name meaning Men of the Marches, or Fron- tiers, or Borderers, and given by the Ro- GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH mans to various tribes on the confines of Germany. Some hordes under this name were driven out of Gaul by Julius Cassar, 58 B. C. Maroboduus formed a league among these tribes, and con- cluded a treaty with Tiberius (after-