Cadmus

Cadmus, in Greek mythology, son of Agenor and Telephassa, and brother of Europa. When Zeus carried off Europa Agenor sent his sons to look for her, but in vain; and Cadmus with Telephassa settled in Thrace, where the latter died. Then Cadmus went to Delphi and was told by an oracle to follow a cow and build a town where the cow should sink down. Cadmus followed the cow to Boeotia and built Thebes. Wishing to sacrifice the cow to Athene, he sent for water, and a dragon killed his messengers. Cadmus killed the dragon, and by Athene's advice sowed its teeth, which sprang up armed men, who fought and killed each other, all but five, who became the ancestors of the Thebans. Later, Cadmus with his wife Harmonia, left Thebes, according to one account, and led a hostile expedition of Encheleans against it, by which he was made king. Both were finally changed to dragons, and taken up to heaven.

Cadoudal, George (1771-1804), celebrated leader of the French Royalists (the Chouans) and conspirator. The son of a Breton farmer, he took part in 1793 in the Vendean rising, and soon became captain. After many changes of fortune he gave in his submission to General Hoche in 1796; but in 1799 he was again in arms, and again submitted in 1800, at which time Napoleon is said to have made efforts to gain him over to himself. But he went to England and was made much of by the Royalists. Unable again to rouse Brittany, he began to intrigue in Paris, and sent Saint-Regent as his agent; but denied all connection with the latter's attempt to assassinate Napoleon. Joining in another plot with the Count d'Artois and with Pichegru, which had for its object the kidnapping of Napoleon, he went to Paris in 1803, and after successfully keeping hidden for six months, he was arrested in March, 1804, and having avowed his intention of overturning the Government and putting Louis XVIII. on the throne, he was guillotined with eleven others in June, 1804.