carried it down to the front and laid it with the other gifts.
Later, it was cut into narrow bands and used to make red stripes
on the soldiers' uniforms.

All that is left of those stirring times in Lebanon to-day is the
little "War Office,"--restored and kept as a memorial of the
Revolution,--and the mound on the Green where the brick oven
stood in which bread was baked for the French soldiers who fought
for American independence.


REFERENCES

1. Stuart, I. W. Life of Jonathan Trumbull./i> Crocker &
firewater. Boston, 1859.

2. The Lebanon War Office./i> Published by the Connecticut
Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Hartford, 1891.

3. Lodge, Henry Cabot. "Address at the Unveiling of the Statue
of the Count de Rochambeau," in A Fighting Frigate and
other Essays./i> D. Appleton & Co. New York, 1902.

4. Chastellux, Marquis de. Travels in North America.
London.




NATHAN HALE