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
“Daily Chronicle,” a social-democratic sheet, which
was suppressed in 1851, and “The Alarmist,” 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 “Sabbath Leaves” 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 “Realschule” 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 “Die Geltung
der Bekenntnissschriften in der reformirten
Kirche” (Magdeburg, 1847); “Vom Kampf um
Völkerfreiheit” (1849); “Der Tag ist angebrochen,”
the sale of which was forbidden by the
authorities (1852); and “Aus Amerika,” 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.).
