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		There Deane worked with Pierre de Beaumarchais in securing commercial and military aid for the colonies, obtaining supplies that were of material help in the Saratoga campaign (1777).
		Deane, however, was soon recalled by Congress and was faced with accusations of profiteering made against him by Lee.
		Embittered, unable to clear himself, and accused as a traitor after publication of some pessimistic private letters, Deane lived the rest of his life in exile.
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		Early in 1776 he was sent to France (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) by Congress, in a semi-official capacity, as a secret agent to induce the French government to lend its financial aid to the colonies.
		On arriving in Paris (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce), Deane at once opened negotiations with Vergennes (additional info and facts about Vergennes) and Beaumarchais, securing through the latter the shipment of many vessel loads of arms and munitions of war to America.
		The successful Revolutionary frigate (A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser) USS Deane (additional info and facts about USS Deane) was named after him, as is Silas Deane Middle School in Wethersfield.
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		Silas Deane 1737–89, political leader and diplomat in the American Revolution, b.
		Groton, Conn. A lawyer and merchant at Wethersfield, Conn., he was elected (1772) to the state assembly and became a leader in the revolutionary cause.
		He was (1774–76) a delegate to the Continental Congress, which sent (1776) him as diplomatic agent to France.
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		York (1781), in which Deane declared his belief that the struggle for independence was hopeless and counselled a return to See also:
		Correspondence of Silas Deane was published in the Connecticut See also:
		H.; and The Deane Papers, in 5 vols., in the New York Historical Society's Collections (1887-189o).
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	Deane, Silas -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		On Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress appointed Silas Deane, John Adams, and John Langdon to fit two warships.
		The best-known novel by U.S. realist author William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham centers on the moral dilemma of Colonel Silas Lapham, a newly rich, self-made businessman who has climbed over his former partner on the ladder to success.
		Born on Aug. 19, 1785, in Wolcott, Conn., Seth Thomas joined Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley in a manufacturing partnership in 1807.
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		DEANE, SILAS [Deane, Silas] 1737-89, political leader and diplomat in the American Revolution, b.
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