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Rh Father Hennepin and his companions, with whom he joined forces, and to whom he was of great as- sistance. In 1684 he caused two Indians, who had murdered several Frenchmen on Lake Superior, to be shot, undaunted by the crowd of excited savages that surrounded him and his small band of white men. In 1086 Denonville ordered him to fortify the " detroit," or strait, between Lakes Erie and Huron. He went there with fifty men and built a palisade fort, which he occupied for some time. The year following, with Tonty and Durantaye, he joined Denonville in his campaign against the Senecas, bringing with him a body of Indians from the upper lakes. During the panic among the colonists that followed the Iroquois invasion of Montreal in 1689, Du Lhut, with twenty-eight Ca- nadians, attacked twenty-two Iroquois in canoes, received their fii'e without returning it, and bore down upon and killed eighteen of them, capturing three and allowing but one to escape. In 1695 he was in command of Fort Frontenac, and in 1G97 succeeded to the command of a company of infan- try. For twenty-five years Du LJiut wiis a martyr to the gout, although he thought himself cured at one time by the intervention of an Ii'oquois saint. Parkman says that " while an habitual breaker of the royal ordinances regarding the fur trade, yet his services were great to the colony and crown, and his name deserves a place of honor among the pioneers of American civilization."

DULLES, John Welsh, editor, b. in Philadel- phia, Pa., 4 Nov., 1823 ; d. there, 18 April, 1887. He was graduated at Yale in 1844, and at Union theological seminary. New York city, in 1848, after spending two years in the study of medicine. He was a missionary in southern India in 1849-'53, and in the latter year took charge of the missionary work of the American Sunday-school union. He became secretary of the publication committee of the Presbyterian general assembly in 1856, and, on the union of the two branches of the church in 1870, was chosen editorial secretary of the united board of publication, editing the tracts, books, and periodicals issued by that body. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1871. Dr. Dulles vis- ited Europe in 1874, travelled in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece in 1878-'9, and journeyed through Spain and Algeria in 1884. He was a nephew of John Welsh, late minister to England. He was the author of "The Soldier's Friend" (Phila- delphia, 1861), the first religious manual prepared for the army during the war for the Union, and subsequently wrote "Life in India" (Philadelphia, 1855) and "The Ride Through Palestine" (1881).

DULON, Rudolf, educator, b. in Stendal, Prussia, 30 April, 1807; d. in Rochester, N. Y., 12 April, 1869. He studied theology and philosophy in the University of Halle, and became rector of a school at Werben in 1831. He accepted pastorates at Flossau, near Osterberg, in 1836, and Magdeburg in 1843, and soon gained a reputation as a pulpit orator and a fearless expounder of liberal Christianity. In 1848 he received a call to the Liebfraukirche in Bremen, and while there entered enthusiastically into the political agitation of that time, strenuously opposing the illiberal measures of the Eichhorn ministry. In 1850 he established the Bremen &ldquo;Daily Chronicle,&rdquo; a social-democratic sheet, which was suppressed in 1851, and &ldquo;The Alarmist,&rdquo; a religious weekly. In 1852 the Bremen senate removed him from his charge; but sixteen years later this judgment was reversed by the appellate court of the free city of Lübec. As Prussia had demanded his extradition, Dr. Dulon fled, in 1853, first to Helgoland, and, in November following, to the United

States. He became the pastor of an independent congregation in New York city, and at the same time issued a series of &ldquo;Sabbath Leaves&rdquo; in the interests of free religion. He subsequently devoted himself to the cause of education, and opened in the city of New York the first German-American school established in the United States, which the civil war finally compelled him to abandon. In July, 1866, he was chosen director of the new German-American &ldquo;Realschule&rdquo; in Rochester, N. Y., where he remained until his death. Gen. Franz Sigel, also a Prussian, taught in Dr. Dulon's New York school, and subsequently married one of his daughters. Dr. Dulon's works include &ldquo;Die Geltung der Bekenntnissschriften in der reformirten Kirche&rdquo; (Magdeburg, 1847); &ldquo;Vom Kampf um Völkerfreiheit&rdquo; (1849); &ldquo;Der Tag ist angebrochen,&rdquo; the sale of which was forbidden by the authorities (1852); and &ldquo;Aus Amerika,&rdquo; a review of educational work in this country (1865).

DUMARESQUE, Philip, loyalist. He was a merchant of Boston, and was married to a daughter of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner. He was one of those who presented an address to Govs. Hutchinson and Gage in 1774 and 1775. In 1776 he went to Halifax with his family, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. He was appointed by the British govern- ment collector of customs at New Providence, Nassau, residing there until his death.

DUMAS, Alexandre Davy (de la Pailleterie). b. in Jeremie, Hayti, 25 March, 1762 ; d. in Villers-Cot- tei'ets, near Paris, 26 Feb., 1806. He was the son of the Marquis de la Pailleterie, a wealthy Creole, and an African woman, Tiennette Dumas, whose sur- name the boy adopted when he enlisted in 1776 in the queen's dragoons. In 1793 he had risen to the rank of general of division, and as such commanded for some time the Array of the Eastern Pyrenees, served in the Army of the Alps, and took posses- sion of the Great Saint-Bernard and Mont-Genis. In 1794 he was commander-in-chief of the Army of the West. Assigned to service under Bonaparte in 1796, he assisted at the siege of Mantua, and at the battle of Brixen in 1798 he alone defended a bridge against a small force of cavalry till the French could come to the rescue. For this deed Bona- parte presented him to the directory as the " Plora- tius Codes of the Tyrol." Gen. Dumas accom- panied Bonaparte to Egypt in May, 1798, and in August suppressed a military insurrection at Cairo. On account of the climate and a disagreement with Gen. Berthier, he applied for a furlough, and sailed for France in 1799. A storm obliged the vessel to put into Taranto, and he was arrested by the Nea- politan government and detained for twenty-eight months as a prisoner. After his release the first consul declined to give him an appointment on ac- count of his republican principles. Gen. Dumas was the father of the well-known French novelist, Alexander Dumas, the elder.

DUMAS, Mathieu, Count, French general, b. in Montpellier, 23 Dec, 1753; d. in Paris, 16 Oct., 1837. He entered the army in 1773, and served as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in America in 1780-'3. He was a member of the legislative assembly in 1791, and was condemned to death in 1793, but fled to Switzerland, entered the military service of Napoleon, and was a general in 1815. He was active in the Revolution of 1830. He wrote " Precis des evenements militaires, de 1799 a 1814 " (Paris, 1816-26, 19 vols, and atlas). It is said also that he is author of the narrative of Gen. Ramel {q. v.) printed in London (1799). His "Souvenirs de mon temps, de 1770 a 1836," were published by his son (Paris, 1840, 3 vols.).