Dorians. 1100BC. Savage tribe who conquered Peloponnesus from Achaeans.

Dorr, Thomas. 1805-54. US campaigner for universal male suffrage.

Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.

Doumer, Paul. 1857-1932. French President 1931-. Assassinated.

Doumergue, Gaston. 1863-1937. French Prime Minister 1910-11, President 1924-31. Instability.

Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.

Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.

Du Gange. 1610-88. French scholar. Latin Dictionary.

Dual Alliance. 1879-1918. Austria-Germany...Triple Alliance. 1891-1914. Secret, France-Russia. Caused Germany to declare war on France when attacking Russia. WWI.

Duchamp, Marcel. 1887-1968. French/US Dada artist.

Dufy, Raoul. 1877-1953. French Fauvist painter.

Dukas, Paul. 1865-1935. French composer. Ariane, Barbe-Bleue. Sorcerer’s Apprentice 1897.

Duluth. 1636-1710. French explorer of Lake Superior area.

Dumas, Alexandre (Père). 1802-70. French writer. Three Musketeers 1844. Count of Monte Cristo.

Dunbarton Oaks Conference. 1944. UN organizational meeting. Yalta. San Francisco.

Dunes, Battle. 1658. England, France defeat Spanish. Fronde.

Dunkirk, Evacuation. 1940. 340,000 Allied troops from N France.

Dunkirk, Treaty. 1947. 50 yr. English-French alliance.

Duns Scotus, John. c1266-1308. British theologian. Immaculate Conception. vs Thomas Aquinas. Reason over faith. Scotism. Absolute primacy of God’s free will.

Dupleix, Joseph François. 1696-1763. French Administrator in India, failed to establish French Empire.

Duquesne, Abraham. 1610-88. French defeat Spanish, Dutch fleets.

Durand Line. 1893. Divided Afghanistan from British India.

Durham Report. 1839. Advocated colonial independence from Britain, BNA Act.

Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.

Dutch Wars. 1672-8. French expansionism thwarted by United Provinces. Anglo-Dutch Wars.

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