Frenchmen and Foreign Officers in the State House of Pennsylvania

Lafayette de caub and 13 other officers arrived at the state house clutching commissions from silas dean. All they needed was congress's stamp of approval and directions to the nearest battlefield. But no one met them, so they waited and waited until a financier told them to go see robert morris who sat on the foreign affairs committee under whose direction silas dean allegedly operated. Morris indicated the frenchman were lovell's responsibility. George washington was among those sick to death of the influx of french officers. He begged major general horatio gates: i shall be much obliged for you to stop the shoals of frenchmen who are coming.