Coruña, a fortified town on NW. of Spain, with a commodious harbour, where Sir John Moore fell in 1809 while defending the embarkation of his army against Soult, and where his tomb is.
Population (circa 1900) given as 34,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cortona, Pietro da * Corvée