etters signed "Fabius," which will bear comparison
with the best of the Federalist productions. It was largely through his
influence that Delaware and Pennsylvania were the first two states to
ratify the Constitution. Dickinson's interests were not exclusively
political. He helped to found Dickinson College (named in his honour) at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1783, was the first president of its board of
trustees, and was for many years its chief benefactor. He died on the
14th of February 1808 and was buried in the Friends' burial ground in
Wilmington, Del.

See C. J. Stille, _Life and Times of John Dickinson_, and P. L. Ford
(editor), _The Writings of John Dickinson_, in vols. xiii. and xiv.
respectively of the _Memoirs of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, 1891 and 1895).

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Being under the same proprietor and the same governor,
Pennsylvania and Delaware were so closely connected before the
Revolution that there was an interchange of public men.

[2] The "Declaration of the United Colonies of North America ...
setting forth the Causes and the Necessity of their Taking up Arms"
(often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson).

DICKSON, SIR ALEXANDER (1777-1840), British artillerist, entered the
Royal Military Academy in 1793, passing out as second lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery in the following year. As a subaltern he saw service in
Minorca in 1798 and at Malta in 1800. As a captain he took part in the
unfortunate Montevideo Expedition of 1806-07, and in 1809 he accompanied
Howorth to the Peninsular War as brigade-major of the artillery. He soon
obtained a command in the Portuguese artillery, and as a
lieutenant-colonel of the Portuguese service took part in the various
battles of 1810-11. At the two sieges of Budazoz, Ciudad Rodrigo, the
Salamanca forts and Burgos, he was entrusted by Wellington (who had the
highest opinion of him) with most of the detailed artillery work, and at
Salamanca battle he commanded the reserve artillery. In the end he
became commander of the whole of the artillery of the allied army, and
though still only a substantive captain in the British service he had
under his orders some 8000 men. At Vitoria, the Pyrenees battles and
Toulouse he directed the movements of the artillery engaged, and at the
end of the war received handsome presents from the officers who had
served under him, many of whom were his seniors in