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Baron DeKalb introducing Lafayette to Silas Deane, 1776-1778.
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Baron DeKalb introducing Lafayette to Silas Deane, 1776-1778.
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Title
Baron
DeKalb
introducing
Lafayette
to
Silas
Deane
,
1776-1778
.
Place
Wethersfield (Conn.)
Topic
Armed Forces -- Officers
Topic-Person
Deane, Silas, 1737-1789
Theme
Infrastructure
Lifestyle
Description
Three
men
,
two
of them in
military
uniforms
, in an
interior
.
One
man
wears
a
hat
and
holds
a
sword
.
Two
men
wear
powdered
wigs
. They
stand
on a
rug
beside
a
desk
and a
chair
. An
inkwell
and
quill
pens
are on the
desk
.
Books
are on
shelves
.<br>
Notes
Silas
Deane
was
born
in
Groton
,
attended
Yale
College
in
New
Haven
, and
practiced
law
in
Wethersfield
. He was a
delegate
from
Connecticut
to the
First
and
Second
Continental
Congresses
. In
March
1776
he was
selected
to
go
to
France
as the
first
representative
of the
United
Colonies
to a
foreign
power
. He
recruited
several
European
military
officers
to the
American
cause
,
including
DeKalb
and
Lafayette
. <br>
Date created
[between
1850
and
1869]
Physical format
1
print
;
22
x
17
cm
.<br>
Digital format
image/jpeg
Identifier
Accession
number
1982.4.0
<br>
File
name
0538
img0068.pcd
<br>
Source
The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
Rights
Reproduction
and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Graphics
Collection
, The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
,
Hartford
.
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