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for the offence. In the Thirty Years' War it was stormed by Gustavus
Adolphus (1632), and captured by King Ferdinand (1634). In the vicinity,
on the Schellenberg, the Bavarians and French were defeated by
Marlborough and Prince Louis of Baden on the 2nd of July 1704. The
imperial freedom restored to the town by Joseph I. in 1705 was again
lost by reincorporation with Bavaria in 1714. In the neighbourhood the
Austrians under Mack were, on the 6th of October 1805, decisively
defeated by the French under Soult.

See _Konigsdorfer, Geschichte des Klosters zum Heiligen Kreuz in
Donauworth_ (1819-20).

DON BENITO, a town of western Spain, in the province of Badajoz; near
the left bank of the river Guadiana, on the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon
railway. Pop. (1900) 16,565. Don Benito is a thriving and comparatively
modern town; for it dates only from the 15th century, when it was
founded by refugees from Don Llorente, who deserted their own town owing
to the danger of floods from the Guadiana. Besides manufactures of
brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in
wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.

DONCASTER, a market-town and municipal borough in the Doncaster
parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 156 m.
N. by W. from London. Pop. (1901) 28,932. It lies in a flat plain on the
river Don, with slight hills rising westward. It is an important station
on the Great Northern railway, whose principal locomotive and carriage
works are here, and it is also served by the North Eastern, Great
Eastern, Great Central, Lancashire & Yorkshire, and Midland railways.
The Don affords intercommunication with Goole and the Humber. The parish
church of St George, occupying the site of an older structure of the
same name, destroyed by fire in 1853, was finished in 1858 under the
direction of Sir G. G. Scott. It is a fine cruciform structure of
Decorated character, with a central tower 170 ft. high, and contains a
particularly fine organ. St James's church was erected, under the same
architect and Lord Grimthorpe, by the Great Northern railway company.
Other important buildings are the town hall, mansion house, free library
and art school, corn exchange and markets. The grammar school was
founded in 1553 and reorganized in 1862. Doncaster race-meetings are
widely famous. The racecourse lies 1 m. S.E. of the town. The old course
is 1 m. 7 fur. 70 yds. in length, and the Sandall