=Dieskau, Jean Armand, Baron de= (1701-1777). Of German descent; served with distinction under Marshal Saxe. When it was made known to the court at Versailles that the British had sent two regiments to America under Braddock, the French decided to fit out an expedition on a larger scale, and six regiments embarked for Canada under Dieskau, who was given the rank of general. Immediately after assuming command, prepared to attack the British and marched at the head of a body of men against Johnson. Although his plans appear to have been well laid, his position was betrayed through the action of the Indians. Severely wounded, made prisoner and well cared for by the British. Taken to England, ruined in health and fortune. Liberated at the conclusion of the war in 1763; and returned to France. =Index=: =WM= Defeated and taken prisoner at Lake George, 22. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Bradley, _Fight with France_. =Digby, Robert= (1732-1815). Commanded the _Dunkirk_ at Quiberon Bay, 1759; second in command in Rodney's expedition for relief of Gibraltar, 1779; commander-in-chief in North America, 1781. =Index=: =Dr= Appointed to chief naval command in America, 194. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Disney, Captain.= =Dr= Accused in connection with Walker affair, 36; tried and acquitted, 38. =Dissenters.= =S= Preponderance of, in Upper Canada, 159, 160. _See also_ Presbyterian; Methodist. =District Courts.= =Sy= Establishment of in Lower Canada, 255. =Doak.= =W= Proprietor of _Loyalist_ newspaper, arrested and released, 75. =Dobson.= =Bk= Brock's faithful servant, 11. =Dodd, E. M.= =H= Solicitor-general and member of Executive and Legislative Councils, Nova Scotia--makes statement as to ministerial responsibility, 76; attempts to reconcile Joseph Howe and his colleagues to the appointment of W. B. Almon to the Executive Council, 87. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_. =Dollard des Ormeaux, Adam.= A young officer of the garrison at Montreal, who saved Montreal and the colony from probable destruction by the Iroquois, in 1660. With sixteen companions and a few Indian allies, he intercepted the Iroquois at the Long Sault Rapids, on the Ottawa, and with a heroism seldom equalled in the world's history, this little band gave their lives for their country's sake. The Iroquois, discouraged by such unexpected resistance, abandoned the projected raid on the colony. =Index=: =L= His heroic resistance to Iroquois at the Long Sault, 39, 69-72. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Régime_; _Jesuit Relations_, 1660; Faillon, _Histoire de la Colonie Française_; Dollier de Casson, _Histoire de Montreal_. The exploit has inspired several Canadian poems. _See_ Martin, _Marguerite_; Fréchette, _Legende d'un Peuple_. =Dollebeau, Father.= =Ch= In charge of mission at Miscou, 235; death of, 235.