Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ame acquainted with Baron Steu- 1834. ben, and accompanied him to America as Dupont, Samuel Francis, naval officer;liis secretary. He was brevetted a captain born in Bergen Point, N. J., Sept. 27,(February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in 1803; entered the United States navy as 163 DtTPORTAIL—DtJQTTESNE midshipman at twelve years of age, andbecame commander, Oct. 28, 1842. Hesaw much active service on the Californiacoast during the war with Mexico, clear-ing the Gulf of California
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ame acquainted with Baron Steu- 1834. ben, and accompanied him to America as Dupont, Samuel Francis, naval officer;liis secretary. He was brevetted a captain born in Bergen Point, N. J., Sept. 27,(February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in 1803; entered the United States navy as 163 DtTPORTAIL—DtJQTTESNE midshipman at twelve years of age, andbecame commander, Oct. 28, 1842. Hesaw much active service on the Californiacoast during the war with Mexico, clear-ing the Gulf of California of Mexican ves-sels. He was promoted to captain in1855; and in October, 1861, he pro-ceeded, in command of the South Atlanticsquadron, to capture Port Royal Island,on the South Carolina coast, to securea central harbor and depot of supplies onthe Southern shores. In July CommodoreDupont was made a rear-admiral, and inApril, 1863, he commanded the fleet whichmade an unsuccessful efiort to captureCharleston. Admiral Dupont assisted inorganizing the naval school at Annapolis,and was the author of a highly com-. SAMtlEL FRANCIS DUPONT. mended report on the use of floating bat-teries for coast defence. He died in Phila-delphia, June 23, 1865. Duportail, Louis Lebegue, Chevalier,military offieer; born in France in 1736;came to America in the early part of theEevolutionary War, and was appointedbrigadier-general in the Continental armyin November, 1777, and major - general,November, 1781. He was directing engi-neer at the siege of Yorktown in the fallof 1781. Returning to France, he wasnamed mar^chal-Uc-camp; and in Novem-ber, 1790, was made minister of war. InDecember, 1791, he resigned; and whenengaged in military service in Lorraine,he received a warning of the designs ofthe Jacobins, and sought safety in 164 America. He died at sea in 1802, whenreturning to France. Dupratz, Antoine Simon Le Page, ex-plorer; born in Tourcoing, France, in1689; settled on the Mississippi Riveramo
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