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Population (1890), 16,841. Decatur, Stephen. Born at Newport, R. I., 1751: died at Frank ford, near Philadelphia, Nov. 14, 1808. An American naval officer. He was placed in command of the Delaware in 1798, and afterward commanded a squadron on the Guadeloupe station. He was discharged in 1801. Decatur, Stephen. Born at Sinnepuxent, Md., liver the tribes under her jurisdiction from the tyranny Jan. 5, 1779: died near Bladensburg, Md., March tin-de-Laye, Gironde, France, Sept. 28, 1780: died at Decazeville, France, Oct. 25, 1860. A French jurist and statesman. He became minister of police Sept. 24, 1815, and premier and minister of the interior in 1818. He resigned in 1820, and became amba ador at London. He was raised to a hereditary dukedom in the same year, and founded Decazeville about 1827. Decazes, Louis Charles Élie Amanieu, Duc. Born at Paris, May 9, 1819: died at his Château La Grave, Gironde, Sept. 16, 1886. A French statesman, eldest son of Elie Decazes. He was minister of foreign affairs 1873-77. Decazeville (de-käz-vēl'). A town in the department of Aveyron, France, in lat. 44° 33′ N., long. 2° 13′ E. It is noted for iron manufactures, and is the center of the Aveyron coal-fields. Population (1891), commune, 8,871. Deccan (dek'kan), or Dekhan (dek han). [Hind. dakshin , the south.] A non-official designation for the peninsular portion of India lying south of the river Nerbudda, between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west; in a restricted sense, the country between the Nerbudda on the north and the Krishna on the south. Decebalus (de-seb'a-lus). [Gr. Δεκέβαλος , chief or king: a title of honor among the Dacians, borne by several of their kings.] Died about 106 A. D. A Dacian king, at war with the Romans in the reigns of Domitian and Trajan. Deceleia (des-e-le'yä). [Gr. Δεκέλεια.] In ancient geography, a city and strategic point in Attica, Greece, situated 14 miles northeast of Athens. It was occupied by the Lacedæmonians from 413 to 404 в. с. Decelea was situated on the mountain-range north of Athens (Parnes), within sight of the city, from which it was distant 120 stades, or about 14 miles. The road from Athens to Oropus and Tanagra pa ed through it. Rawlinson , Herod., III. 471, note. Deceleian War (des-e-le'yan war). A name frequently given to the third or final stage of the Peloponnesian war, on account of the occupation of Deceleia. December (de-sem'ber). [L., 'the tenth month.'] That month of the year in which the sun touches the tropic of Capricorn at the winter solstice, being then at its greatest distance south of the equator; the twelfth and last month according to the modern mode of reckoning time, having thirty-one days. In the Roman calendar it was the tenth month, reckoning from March. Abbreviated Dec. Decemvirate (de-sem'vi-rat). In Roman history, the commi ion of ten, presided over by Appius Claudius, sent about 450 B. c. to Greece to study Greek law and codify the Roman law. It was renewed the next year, and drew up the Twelve Tables (which see). During its existence it superseded provisionally the regular machinery of government, and was overthrown on account of its tyranny by a popular insurrection. See Virginia . Deception Island (de-sep's hon i'land). A volcanic island in the South Shetland group, south of Cape Horn. Dechamps (de-shon'), Adolphe. Born at Melle, Belgium, June 17, 1807: died near Manage (near Bru els), July 19, 1875. A Belgian Catholic statesman. He became a member of the second chamber 1834, governor of the province of Luxemburg 1841, and minister of public works 1843, and was minister of foreign affairs 1845-46. Dechamps, Victor Auguste. Born at Melle, Belgium, Dec. 6, 1810: died at Mechlin, Sept. 28, 1883. A Belgian Red empt or ist and Ultramontane leader, brother of Adolphe Dechamps. He became bishop of Namur in 1865, archbishop of Mechlin in 1867, and cardinal in 1875. De Charms, or De Charmes (dė shärmz), Richard. Born at Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1796: died at Philadelphia, March 20, 1864. An American Swedenborgian clergyman and author. Decius (de's hi-us), Caius Me ius Quintus Trajanus. Born at Bubalia, Pannonia: killed in battle with the Goths, near the Danube, Decius 251 A. D. Emperor of Rome 249-251. Having been sent by the emperor Philip pus to restore subordination in the revolted army of Mosia, he compelled by the army to a ume the purple and march against Philip pus, who fell in battle near Verona in 249. He was defeated and slain in 251, near Abricium, by the Goths, who had invaded his dominions. During his reign a bloody persecution of the Christians took place. Decius Mus (mus), Publius. 1. Killed at the battle of Vesuvius, 340 B. C. A Roman plebeian consul, distinguished in the first Samnite and Latin wars.-2. Killed at the battle of Sentinum, 295 B. c. A Roman consul, son of Decius (died 340).-3. Killed at the battle of Asculum (1), 279 в. с. A Roman consul, son of IMG:content-0356.png:[blocks in formation] Decize (de-sēz'). A town in the department of Nièvre, France, situated on an island in the Loire 18 miles southeast of Nevers: the ancient Decetia. It has a ruined château. Population (1891), commune, 4,977. Born Danube. We have seen that all attempts at serious conquest beyond those boundaries came to nothing. The Roman po e ions beyond the two great rivers were mere outposts for the better security of the land within the rivers. The district beyond them, fenced in by a wall and known as the Agri Decumates , was hardly more than such an outlying post on a great scale. Freeman, Hist. Geog., p. 84. De Forest Hungary, situated on the Szamos 32 miles northeast of Klausenburg. Population (1890), 7,728. Defarge (de-färzh'), Thérèse. In Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities," the wife of Ernest Defarge, the keeper of a wine-shop: a type of the remorsele women of the St. Antoine quarter of the "Arcadia" in 1598. There are still ruins of a city in the northern Hedjas (see Arabia ) bearing the name of Dedan. Dedham (ded'am). The capital of Norfolk County, Ma achusetts, situated 10 miles southwest of Boston. Population (1890), 7,123. Dedlock (ded 'lok), Lady. The wife of Sir Leicester Dedlock in Dickens's novel "Bleak House": a haughty woman of fashion, secretly consumed with terror, shame, and remorse. She has an illegitimate child, Esther Summers on, but marries Sir Leicester, who is ignorant of her history. Her secret becomes known to Mr. Tulkinghorn, her husband's legal adviser, who tells her of his design to reveal it to him. She leaves home and dies from exposure and remorse at the gate of the graveyard where Captain Hawdon, the father of her child, is buried. Decken (dek'ken), Karl Klaus von der. at Kotzen, Brandenburg, Germany, Aug. 8, 1833: died 1865. An African explorer. Until 1860 he was in the military service. In that year he sailed from Hamburg to East Africa, and gave the rest of his life and means to the exploration of what is now British D East Africa. His first attempt was fruitle . On his secec. ond expedition, 1861-62, he explored Lake Jipe and Kilimanjaro. In 1864 he led a great expedition to the exploration of the Sabaki, Tana, and Jub rivers. On the lat ter he and almost all his companions were killed by the