Saturday, March 03, 2007

This Day in History: March 3

Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission on this day in 1776. The Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence, consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, John Dickinson, John Hay and Robert Morris, instructed Deane to meet with French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, to stress America's need for military stores and assure the French that the colonies were moving toward "total separation.

2 comments:

  1. Silas Deane, what did he get for his trouble?

    A second rate state highway loaded with strip malls and fast food joints named after him.

    Well, no one ever said you became a patriot for the glory...

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  2. Yeah, that can't be the measure--look how many public works projects are named after Robert Byrd!

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