Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ere received, the brave little armymarched 700 miles to Saltillo, where they arrivedon 21 May, to find the active business of the warin that part of Mexico ended. After 1847 led a quiet life at his home in westernMissouri. In 1836, 1840, and 1854 he was electedto the legislature. DONKIN, Robert, British soldier, b. 19 March,1727; d. near Bristol, England, in March, entered the army in 1746, was at the siege ofBelle Isle in 1761, afterward served in Flanderswith Wolfe, and through the Seven years war, andwas aide-de-camp and sec
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ere received, the brave little armymarched 700 miles to Saltillo, where they arrivedon 21 May, to find the active business of the warin that part of Mexico ended. After 1847 led a quiet life at his home in westernMissouri. In 1836, 1840, and 1854 he was electedto the legislature. DONKIN, Robert, British soldier, b. 19 March,1727; d. near Bristol, England, in March, entered the army in 1746, was at the siege ofBelle Isle in 1761, afterward served in Flanderswith Wolfe, and through the Seven years war, andwas aide-de-camp and secretary to Gen. Rufane,governor and commander-in-chief at was commissioned captain in 1770, and hadrisen to the rank of general in 1809. He servedthrough the whole of the American war from 1775till 1783, in the early part of it as aide-de-camp toGen. Gage, and then as major of the 44th was the author of Military Collections andRemarks (New York, 1777, published for thebenefit of the children and widows of the valiant. ?C^JkJl^i^) DONNELLY DOOLITTLE 201 soldiers inhumanly and wantonly butchered whenpeacefully marching to and from Concord, April id, 1775, by the rebels ). DONNELLY, Ignatius, author, b. in Phila-delphia, 3 Nov., 1881. lie was educated in the pub-lic schools of his native city, studied law, was ad-mitted to the bar, and practised. He went toMinnesota in 1857, was elected lieutenant-governorin 1859, and again in 1801, and was then elected tocongress as a republican, serving from 7 Dec,1863, till 3 March, 1869. Besides doing journalisticwork he has written an Essay on the Sonnets ofShakespeare ; Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (New York, 1882), in which he attempts to demon-strate that there once existed in the Atlanticocean, opposite the straits of Gibraltar, a largeisland, known to the ancients as Atlantis ; and Ragnarok , (1883), in which he tries to prove thatthe deposits of clay, gravel, and decomposed rocks,characteristic of the drift
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