The History of Terrorism
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Continental Congressmen from Connecticut
Silas Deane
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Silas Deane
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1701-Today Yale University
1764-1775 Committees of Correspondence
Connecticut House of Representatives
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Continental Congressmen from Connecticut
Financiers of the American Revolution
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont
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The Hidden Hand
United States Ambassadors to France
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1775-Today United States Navy
1776 Congress appointed Deane as a secret envoy to France with the mission of inducing the French government to grant financial aid to the colonies.
1776 Deane's position was officially recognized after Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee arrived in Paris in December 1776, with orders from Congress appointing the trio as the diplomatic delegation to France.
1776 The Committee of Secret Correspondence was instructing Silas Deane, an undercover agent in France, on how to interact with the French government and encourage them to provide munitions and ships to the United States.
1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States-France)
A dispute arose between Deane and fellow Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman over the appointment of Israel Putnam as a major general under Washington's command.
Along with Benjamin Franklin, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont worked with John Adams, Silas Deane, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Vergennes to help with the American Revolution.
Casimir Pulaski
Deane also tacitly approved the plot of Scotsman James Aitken (John the Painter) to destroy Royal Navy stores and dockyards in Portsmouth and Plymouth, England, on behalf of the Continental cause.
Deane excelled in the committee work of Congress, helping to coordinate the attack on Fort Ticonderoga and to establish the United States Navy.
Edward Bancroft
Johann de Kalb
Lafayette
Sen William Bingham was sent by the Committee of Secret Correspondence to Martinico, to reside ostensibly as a merchant, and establish communications through that colony with Silas Deane, the committee's agent in France.
Silas Deane organized the shipment of arms and munitions to the colonies with the assistance of Beaumarchais, the playwright and outspoken supporter of American independence.
Silas Deane recruited the services of a number of foreign soldiers to the cause, including Lafayette, Baron Johann de Kalb, Thomas Conway, Casimir Pulaski, and Baron von Steuben.
Thomas Conway
US Maj Gen Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
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Arthur Lee
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
Pierre Beaumarchais