LIST OF PLATES READING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, CITY HALL SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY DEARBORN FAC-SIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE DECLARA TION OF INDEPENDENCE INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA PONTIAC'S ATTACK ON FORT DETROIT ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE ADMIRAL DAVID G. FARRAGUT PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG-VOLUNTEERS CROSS- HARPER'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Dablon, CLAUDE, Jesuit missionary; born in Dieppe, France, in 1618; began a mission to the Onondaga Indians in New York in 1655, and six years afterwards he accompanied Druillettes in an overland journey to the Hudson Bay region. In 1668 he went with Marquette to Lake Superior, and in 1670 was appointed superior of the missions of the Upper Lakes. He prepared the Relations concerning New France for 1671-72, and also a narrative of Marquette's journey, published in John Gilmary Shea's Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1853). He died in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 20, 1697. Dabney, RICHARD HEATH, educator; born in Memphis, Tenn., March 29, 1860; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1881; became Professor of History and Economical Science in the University of Virginia in 1897. He is the author of John Randolph; The Causes of the French Revolution, etc. Dabney, ROBERT LEWIS, clergyman; born in Louisa county, Va., March 5, 1820; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1842; ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1847; and became Professor of Church History in Union Seminary, Virginia, in 1853. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Confederate army as chaplain, and later became chief of staff to Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. In 1883 he accepted the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Texas. His publications include Life of T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson; and Defence of Virginia and the South. D. Dabney, WALTER DAVID, lawyer; born in Albemarle county, Va., in 1853; graduated at the law department of the University of Virginia in 1875; appointed legal secretary of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission in 1890, and, later, solicitor of the State Department. In 1895 he became Professor of Common and Statute Law in the University of Virginia. He died in Charlottesville, Va., March 12, 1899. Dacres, JAMES RICHARD, naval officer; born in Suffolk, England, Aug. 22, 1788; son of Vice-Admiral Dacres, who was a commander in the battle with Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776. The son entered the royal navy in 1796, and, being placed in command of the frigate Guerrière in 1811, was sent to fight the Americans. He proudly boasted that he would "send the Constitution to Davy Jones's locker" when he should be so fortunate as to meet her. She had escaped him in her famous retreat, but willingly met and fought the Guerrière afterwards. Dacres was then captain. He attained the rank of flag-officer in 1838, and in 1845 was vice-admiral and commander - in - chief of the fleet at the Cape of Good Hope. He was presented with a gratuity from the "Patriotic Fund" at Lloyd's, in consideration of his wound. He was married, in 1810, to Arabella Boyd, who died in 1828. He died in Hampshire, England, Dec. 4, 1853. See CONSTITUTION (frigate). Dade, FRANCIS LANGHORN, military officer; born in Virginia; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians, while on the march to Fort King, he, with almost the entire detachment, was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians, Dec. 28, 1835. A monument at West Point was erected to the memory of Major Dade and the men in his command, and Fort Dade, 35 miles from Tampa, Fla., is named in his honor. the Dahlgren gun, which he perfected at the navy-yard at Washington, and in 1862 he was made chief of the bureau of ordnance. In July, 1863, he took command of the South Atlantic squadron, and, with the land forces of General Gillmore, captured Morris Island and Fort Wagner, and reduced Fort Sumter to a heap of ruins. He conducted successful expedition up the St. John's River, in Florida, in 1864, and co-operated with General Sherman in the capture of Savannah. After the evacuation of Charleston he moved his vessels up to that city. Admiral Dahlgren, besides being the inventor of a cannon, introduced into the a Daggett, NAPHTALI, clergyman; born in Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 8, 1727; graduated at Yale College in 1748; ordained pastor of a Presbyterian church at Smithtown, Long Island, in 1751; and in 1755 was chosen professor of divinity at Yale, which place he held until his death, in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, 1780. In 1766, on the resignation of navy the highly esteemed light boat President Clap, he was chosen president of the college pro tempore and officiated in that capacity more than a year. He was an active patriot when the War of the Revolution broke out; and when the British attacked New Haven, in 1779, he took part in the resistance made by the citizens and surrounding militia. Dr. Daggett was made a prisoner, and the severe treatment to which he was subjected so shattered his constitution that he never recovered his health. After the howitzer. He was author of several works on ordnance, which became textbooks. He died in Washington, D. С., July 12, 1870. Dahlgren, MADELEINE VINTON, author; born in Gallipolis, O., about 1835; widow of Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren. She established and was the vice-president for several years of the Literary Society of Washington; was opposed to woman suffrage, against which she published a weekly paper for two years. and also sent |