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

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

Dowding, Hugh. 1882-1970. WWII air marshal. Fighter Commander, Battle of Britain.

Downs, Battle. 1639. Dutch def Spain = end of Spain’s sea power.

Dowson, Ernest. 1867-1900. English Decadent poet. -“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion”.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. 1859-1930. British doctor, mystery writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes. Study in Scarlet 1887.

Dragoon. 16-20C. Soldiers trained for infantry and cavalry.

Dravidians. Invaded India, 3250-2750BC.

Drebbel, Cornelis. 1572-1633. Dutch inventor. Submarine 1620.

Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.

Dresden, Battle. 1813. Last major Napoleonic victory in Germany.

Dresden, Treaty. 1745. Prussia gains Saxony. Ends 2nd Silesian War.

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

Dreyse, Nikolaus von. Invented needle gun, 1827.

Drinkwater, John. 1882-1937. English dramatist: Abraham Lincoln 1918.

Drugs, War on. 1971-. US prohibition and criminalization of recreational drug use. World’s highest incarceration rate.

Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.

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.

Dual Monarchy. 1867. Austrian Empire divided into Austrian, Hungarian kingdoms under one king. Ausgleich.

Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

DuBarry, Marie. 1746-93. Mistress of Louis XV. Guillotined.

Dubcek, Alexander. 1921-92. Czech First Secretary, 1968-9. Attempted reforms led to Soviet Invasion.

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