De Kalb
JOHN, BARON, a French officer; born in Bavaria, about 1732. He accompanied Lafayette to America in 1777; was appointed the same year Major-General in the American army; and joined the main force under Washington. In the battle of Camden, Aug. 16, 1780, he was at the head of the Maryland and Delaware troops, who maintained their ground till Cornwallis concentrated his whole force upon them. He fell, pierced with 11 wounds, in the charge upon his regiment before they gave way. He died three days after at Camden, where a monument, of which Lafayette placed the corner-stone, was erected to his memory in 1825.