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ANDRE 169 ANDREW lowing year he became Secretary of Edu- cation and was Hungarian Minister to the King in 1894. In 1898 he abandoned the Liberal party, but returned to it a year later. He was Minister of the In- terior in 1906 and held that oifice until 1909. In 1912 he represented Austria in the diplomatic attempts to prevent the outbreak of the Balkan War. In 1917 he served as Prime Minister of Hungary. He was, in general, opposed to Austria's warlike attitude, but he supported the Government until 1916, when he took his place with the opposition. He wrote sev- eral works on political subjects, includ- ing "The Development of Hungarian Constitutional Liberty" (1908). ANDRE, JOHN (an-dra'), a British military officer, bom in London in 1751; > entered the army in 1771; went to Can- MAJOR ANDRE ada in 1774; and was made prisoner by the Americans in 1775. After his ex- change, he was rapidly promoted, and in 1780 was appointed Adjutant-General, with the rank of Major. His prospects were of the most flattering kind when the treason of Arnold led to his death. The temporary absence of Washington having been chosen by the traitor as the most proper season for carrying into ef- fect his design of delivering to Sir Henry Clinton the fortification at West Point, then under his command, and refusing to confide to any but Major Andre the maps and information required by the British general, an interview became necessary, and Sept. 19, 1780, Andre left New York in the sloop-of-war "Vulture," and on the next day arrived at Fort Montgomery, in company with Beverly Robinson, an American. Furnished with passports from Arnold, Robinson and Andre the next day landed and were re- ceived by the traitor at the water's edge. Arnold delivered to Andre drafts of the works at West Point and memoranda of the forces and the latter returned to the beach. But the ferrymen, who were Americans, refused to carry him to the "Vulture" and he was compelled to re- turn by land. Accompanied by Smith, an emissary of Arnoldj and provided with a passport under his assumed name of Anderson, he set out. At Tarrytown he was first stopped, and then arrested, bj three Americans. Andre offered them his money, horse, and a large reward, but without avail. They examined hig person, and, in his boots, found the fatal papers. He w^s then conveyed to Colo- nel Jameson, commander of the Ameri- can outposts. On the arrival of Wash- ington, Ancire was conveyed to Tappan and tried by a board of general officers, among whom were General Greene, the president, Lafayette, and Knox. Every effort was made by Sir Henry Clinton to save him, and there was strong dis- position on the American side to do so. His execution, originally appointed for Sept. 30, did not take place till Oct. 2. His remains which were buried on the spot, were afterward removed to London, and now repose in Westminster Abbey. ANDREA DEL SARTO. See Sarto. ANDREE, SALOMON AUGUSTE (an- dra'), a Swedish aeronaut, born Oct. 18, 1854; educated for a civil engineer. In 1882, he took part in a Swedish meteoro- logical expedition to Spitzbergen. In 1884 he was appointed chief engineer to the patent office, and from 1886 to 1889 he occupied a professor's chair at Stock- holm. In 1892 he received from the Swedish Academy of Sciences a sub- vention for the purpose of undertaking scientific aerial navigation. From that time Dr. Andree devoted himself to aerial navigation, and made his first as- cent at Stockholm in the summer of 1893. In 1895 he presented to the Academy of Sciences a well-matured project for ex- ploring the regions of the North Pole with the aid of a balloon. With two com- panions, Dr. S. T. Strindberg and Herr Fraenckell,he started from Dane's Island, Spitzbergen, July 11, 1897. Two days after his departure, a message was re- ceived from Dr. Andree by carrier pigeon, which stated that at noon, July 13, they were in latitude 82.2°, and longitude 15.5° E., and making good progress to the E., 10° southerly. This was the last word received from the explorer. ANDREW, the first disciple, and one of the apostles of Jesus. His career after the Master's death is unknown. The an-