Dessalines
JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, JEAN in Africa in 1758. He was a slave in 1791, when the insurrection of the blacks occurred in that island, but was set free along with the other slaves in St. Do- (dā-sa-len), an emperor of Haiti; born mingo in 1794. After the deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, and the subse- JACQUES quent evacuation of the island by the power; and the year following (1804) Jacques I. His rule was savage and opernor-general for life with absolute pressive, and both the troops and the people entered into a conspiracy against him, and, Oct. 17, 1806, he was slain by was declared emperor with the title of one of his soldiers.
Germany; capital of the former Duchy of DESSAU (des'sou), a town of north Anhalt; on the left bank of the Mulde, not far from its junction with the Elbe, 70 miles S. W. of Berlin. It is in general well built. Among the principal eral well built. Among the principal 70 miles S. W. of Berlin. It is in gen- not far from its junction with the Elbe, structure, built in 1748, and improved in 1875, with a val valuable picture -gallery and library; a town-hall, an elegant theater, and several churches. The Philanthrolibrary; a town-hall, an elegant theater, 1875, with a valuable picture-gallery and grain. Moses Mendelssohn was a native.
Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676- 1747), a famous soldier in the wars of factures are sugar, woolen cloth, machinthe 18th century, is popularly known as ery, carpets, and there is a large trade in der alte Dessauer (the old Dessauer); his statue adorns the market-place. Pop. (1890) 34,658; (1905) 55,134.
Brazil, capital of the province of Santa Catharina. The harbor is, next to that of Rio de Janeiro, the best on the Brazil- DESTERRO (dāz-ter'rō). a seaport of ian coast. studied under Madame Loewe Destinn, whose name she assumed when she went