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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane, Silas, 1737-1789 (search)
Deane, Silas, 1737-1789 Diplomatist; born in Groton, Conn., Dec. 24, 1737; graduated at Yale Ct Britain, and to obtain military supplies. Mr. Deane went in the character of a Bermuda merchant;ergennes, requesting his company immediately. Deane, indignant at the treatment he had received, rversation on American affairs took place, when Deane acquainted the minister with the nature of his appropriated the public money to his own use. Deane was recalled, by order of Congress, Nov. 21, who were commercial experts taking the side of Deane, and Richard Henry Lee, then chairman of the cttee on foreign affairs, being against him. Deane published in the Philadelphia Gazette an Addref the committee on foreign affairs, replied to Deane (Jan. 2, 1779), availing himself of public doco remained sole minister at the French Court. Deane, who was undoubtedly an able, honest man, prefied in Deal, England, Aug. 23, 1789. In 1842 Deane's long-disputed claim was adjusted by Congress[1 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foreign affairs. (search)
Foreign affairs. On Sept. 18, 1775, the Continental Congress appointed Messrs. Welling, Franklin, Livingston, Alsop, Deane, Dickinson, Langdon, McKean, and Ward a secret committee to contract for the importation from Europe of ammunition, small-arms, and cannon, and for such a purpose Silas Deane was soon sent to France. By a resolution of the Congress, April 17, 1777, the name of this committee was changed to committee of foreign affairs, whose functions were like those of the present Secretary of State (see cabinet, President's). Foreign intercourse was first established by law in 1790. President Washington, in his message, Jan. 8, 1790, suggested to Congress the propriety of providing for the employment and compensation of persons for carrying on intercourse with foreign nations. The House appointed a committee, Jan. 15, to prepare a bill to that effect, which was presented on the 21st. It passed the House on March 30. The two Houses could not agree upon the provisions of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), France, early relations with. (search)
annon and mortars, and a supply of small arms from the French arsenals; also, 4,000 tents, and clothing for 30,000 men. Deane was suspected of some secret connection with the French government, and was closely watched by British agents; and the Frendence, a plan of treaties with foreign nations had been reported by a committee and accepted by Congress, and Franklin, Deane, and Jefferson were appointed (Sept. 28, 1776) commissioners to the Court of France. Jefferson declined the appointment,ty of their public character, and provision was made for their maintenance. Franklin arrived at Paris, and was joined by Deane and Lee in December. The commissioners were courteously received by Vergennes, privately, but without any recognition ofss, with which they purchased arms and supplies for troops, and fitted out armed vessels— a business chiefly performed by Deane, who had been a merchant, and managed the transactions with Beaumarchais. Out of these transactions grew much embarrassm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grand remonstrance, the. (search)
sing all the gunpowder into one hand, keeping it in the Tower of London, and setting so high a rate upon it that the poorer sort were not able to buy it, nor could any have it without license, thereby to leave the several parts of the kingdom destitute of their necessary defence, and by selling so dear that which was sold to make an unlawful advantage of it, to the great charge and detriment of the subject. 25. The general destruction of the King's timber, especially that in the Forest of Deane, sold to Papists, which was the best store-house of this kingdom for the maintenance of our shipping. 26. The taking away of men's right, under the colour of the King's title to land, between high and low water marks. 27. The monopolies of soap, salt, wine, leather, sea-coal, and in a manner of all things of most common and necessary use. 28. The restraint of the liberties of the subjects in their habitation, trades and other interests. 29. Their vexation and oppression by purvey
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), John the painter. (search)
John the painter. While Silas Deane (q. v.), commissioner of the Continental Congress, was execute them. He thought it right to acquaint Deane, the United States minister, with his scheme. he passed by the name of John the painter. Mr. Deane opposed the assassination of the King as cowis generals. The man was finally persuaded by Deane to abandon his regicidal plan, and left. He soon returned, thanked Deane for persuading him not to lay violent hands on the Lord's Anointed, andning the naval stores at Portsmouth, England. Deane said that would tend to weaken the enemy in car five years hence. He borrowed a guinea from Deane, and crossed the channel. At Portsmouth he hould certainly have killed the King had not Mr. Deane dissuaded him, and that he was revenged, andal was published, and no mention was made of Mr. Deane's having saved the life of the King. The Gertrait. The above is compiled from manuscript notes made from the lips of Deane by Elias Boudinot.[2 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kalb, Johann, Baron de 1721- (search)
lb, Johann, Baron de 1721- Military officer; born in Huttendorf, Bavaria, June 29, 1721; entered the French military service in 1743, and in 1747 rose to the rank of brigadier-general under Marshal Broglie, and obtained the order of military merit in 1761. The next year he visited the English-American colonies as a secret agent of the French government, to ascertain their political temper. He was a brigadier-general in the French army when (November, 1776) he was engaged by Franklin and Deane to serve in the Continental army. He accompanied Lafayette to America in 1777, and was appointed major-general, Sept. 15, 1777, by the Continental Congress. He served under the immediate command of Washington until after the evacuation of Philadelphia, June, 1778; then in New Jersey and Maryland until April, 1780, when he was sent to assist Lincoln, besieged in Charleston. He arrived too late. De Kalb became chief commander in the South after the fall of Baron De Kalb. Charleston, but
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de 1757- (search)
hing to address myself in a direct manner to Mr. Deane, I became the friend of Kalb, a German in ou have inscribed to him! When I presented to Mr. Deane my boyish face (for I was scarcely nineteen ade me to abandon my project. I called upon Mr. Deane, and I thanked him for his frankness. Untillso thought most expedient by Mm. Franklin and Deane, for the doctor himself was then in France; anrted by the promises which had been given by Mr. Deane, a numerous band of foreigners besieged the ty was generously entered into with Franklin. Deane, and Arthur Lee, and that treaty was announcedtipulates, in return, to depart when and how Mr. Deane shall judge proper, to serve the United Stat The day after the signing of the contract, Mr. Deane's agency was superseded by the arrival of Drf the unpromising condition of their cause. Mr. Deane avows his inability to furnish him with a pa greater need has it of my services; and, if Mr. Deane has no vessel for my passage, I shall purcha[2 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paine, Thomas 1737- (search)
ers, and was so misrepresented by them that Congress recalled him from France. It had been insinuated by Carmichael that Deane had appropriated the public money to his private use. Two violent parties arose, in and out of Congress, concerning the doings of the agents of Congress abroad. Robert Morris, and others acquainted with financial matters, took the side of Deane. The powerful party against him was led by Richard Henry Lee, brother of Arthur, and chairman of the committee on foreign affairs. Deane published (1779) An address to the people of the United States, in which he commented severely on the conduct of the Lees, and justly claimed credit for himself in obtaining supplies from France through Beaumarchais. Paine, availing himself of documents in his custody, published a reply to Deane's address, in which he asserted that the supplies nominally furnished through a mercantile house came really from the French government. This avowal, which the French and Congress both
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
l Dec. 18, 1777 Gen. Charles Lee released in exchange for General Prescott Dec., 1777 Battle of the Kegs Jan. 5, 1778 Louis XVI. acknowledges the independence of the colonies, and signs a treaty of alliance and commerceFeb. 6, 1778 Baron Steuben joins the camp at Valley Forge Feb., 1778 Bill introduced by Lord North in Parliament concerning peace negotiations with America reaches Congress April 15, and is rejected April 22, 1778 French treaty reaches Congress by messenger May 2, 1778 Deane's treaty with France ratifiedMay 4, 1778 Mischianza, a festival, is given at Philadelphia by the British officers in honor of Sir William Howe (who had been succeeded by Sir Henry Clinton), six days before his return to England May 18, 1778 Affair at Barren HillMay 20, 1778 British raid in Warren and Bristol, R. I.May 25, 1778 Col. Ethan Allen, released from im- prisonment, returns to Bennington, Vt. May 31, 1778 Earl of Carlisle, George Johnstone, and William Eden, appointed peace
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties, Franco-American (search)
ivateering was to be restricted, not abolished; and while the Americans were not willing to make common cause with the French, they were willing to agree not to assist Great Britain in the war on France, nor trade with that power in goods contraband of war. The commissioners sent to negotiate the treaty were authorized to promise that, in case France should become involved in the war, neither party should make a definitive treaty of peace without six months notice to the other. Franklin, Deane, and Lee were United States commissioners at the French Court at the close of 1776. The Continental Congress had elaborated a plan of a treaty with France, by which it was hoped the States might secure their independence. The commissioners were instructed to press for an immediate declaration of the French government in favor of the Americans. Knowing the desire of the French to widen the breach and cause a dismemberment of the British Empire, the commissioners were to intimate that a reu