852

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 6.

Preamble.

Whereas the Congress of the United States, on

the fourteenth of October, seventeen hundred

and eighty, passed the following resolution :

Resolved, That a monument be erected to the

memory of the late Major General Baron De

Kalb, in the city of Annapolis, in the State of

Maryland, with the following inscription :

"Sacred to the Memory of the

" BARON DE KALB,

" Knight of the Royal Order of Military Merit,

Brigadier of the Armies of France, and Major

General in the service of the United States of

America. Having served with honor and repu-

Inscription.

tation for three years, he gave a last and glo-

rious proof of his attachment to the liberties of

mankind and the cause of America in the action

near Camden, in the State of South Carolina,

on the 16th of August, 1780, where, leading on

the troops of the Maryland and Delaware lines

against superior numbers, and animating them

by his example to deeds of valor, he was

pierced with many wounds, and on the 19th

following expired, in the 48th year of his age.

The Congress of the United States of America,

in gratitude to his zeal, services and merit, have

erected this monument."

And whereas, from some cause unknown to this

Preamble.

General Assembly, the resolution aforesaid has

never been carried into effect by the erection of

a monument to the illustrious champion of