5, 1793; also Feb.

2d and Feb.

3d.] Clark Commissioned as a French Major General.
Genet immediately commissioned Clark as a Major General in the service of the French Republic, and sent out various Frenchmen--Michaux, La Chaise, and others--with civil and military titles, to co-operate with him, to fit out his force as well as possible, and to promise him pay for his expenses.

Brown, now one of Kentucky's representatives at Philadelphia, gave these men letters of introduction to merchants in Lexington and elsewhere, from whom they got some supplies; but they found they would have to get most from Philadelphia.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., Michaux to George Rogers Clark, undated, but early in 1793.] Michaux was the agent for the French Minister, though nominally his visit was undertaken on purely scientific grounds.