The Life of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette ...: From Numerous and Authentic SourcesAndrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1843 - 375 sider |
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... Count Donop - Fort Mifflin - Major Fleury . CHAPTER VI . 44 Lafayette returns to head - quarters - Domestic anxiety and corres pondence - Difficulty of communication with France - Situation and feelings - Desire for a command - Gen ...
... Count Donop - Fort Mifflin - Major Fleury . CHAPTER VI . 44 Lafayette returns to head - quarters - Domestic anxiety and corres pondence - Difficulty of communication with France - Situation and feelings - Desire for a command - Gen ...
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... Count D'Estaing - It repairs to Newport - Gratification of Lafayette - Is appointed to co - operate with his countrymen - Gen . Greene sent to participate in the command - Correspondence of Washington and Lafayette on the occasion ...
... Count D'Estaing - It repairs to Newport - Gratification of Lafayette - Is appointed to co - operate with his countrymen - Gen . Greene sent to participate in the command - Correspondence of Washington and Lafayette on the occasion ...
Side x
... Count de Vergennes- Lafayette negotiates for aid to America - Proposed descent upon the English coast - Paul Jones ... Count Rocham . beau - The Count offended - Lafayette's explanations - Admonitory letter of Count Rochambeau ...
... Count de Vergennes- Lafayette negotiates for aid to America - Proposed descent upon the English coast - Paul Jones ... Count Rocham . beau - The Count offended - Lafayette's explanations - Admonitory letter of Count Rochambeau ...
Side xi
... Count de Vergennes - To Ma dame Lafayette . CHAPTER XVII . 149 Arnold in Virginia - Contemplated expedition for his capture - Lafay ette assigned to the command of a southern detachment -- His pre- parations and rapid progress ...
... Count de Vergennes - To Ma dame Lafayette . CHAPTER XVII . 149 Arnold in Virginia - Contemplated expedition for his capture - Lafay ette assigned to the command of a southern detachment -- His pre- parations and rapid progress ...
Side xii
... Count de Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake -Lafayette in command of the combined forces - Blockades Corn . wallis , by sea and land - Impatience of Count de Grasse and Gen. St. Simon - Urge Lafayette to attack Cornwallis - He refuses ...
... Count de Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake -Lafayette in command of the combined forces - Blockades Corn . wallis , by sea and land - Impatience of Count de Grasse and Gen. St. Simon - Urge Lafayette to attack Cornwallis - He refuses ...
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Side 209 - The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions, that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ! But I despair of seeing it.
Side 260 - Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more.
Side 131 - This is a decisive moment ; one of the most, I will go further and say, the most important America has seen. The court of France has made a glorious effort for our deliverance, and if we disappoint its intentions by our supineness, we must become contemptible in the eyes of all mankind ; nor can we after that venture to confide, that our allies will persist in an attempt to establish what it will appear we want inclination or ability to assist them in.
Side 74 - The several brigades are to be assembled for this purpose at nine o'clock to-morrow morning, when their Chaplains will communicate the intelligence contained in the Postscript to the Pennsylvania Gazette of the second instant, and offer up a thanksgiving, and deliver a discourse suitable to the occasion.
Side 232 - We swear to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king ; and to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen, by the indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Side 310 - ... to you cordial congratulations upon the occasion of your recent arrival in the United States, in compliance with the wishes of Congress, and to assure you of the very high satisfaction which your presence affords on this early theatre of your glory and renown. Although but few of the members who...
Side 192 - That the secretary for foreign affairs further acquaint the minister plenipotentiary at the court of Versailles, that he will conform to the intention of congress by consulting with, and employing the assistance of, the marquis de Lafayette, in accelerating the supplies which may be afforded by his most Christian majesty, for the use of the United States...
Side 55 - The unfortunate soldiers were in want of everything ; they had neither coats, hats, shirts nor shoes ; their feet and legs froze till they became black, and it was often necessary to amputate them.
Side 311 - ... to you, and to your illustrious associates in the field and in the cabinet, for the multiplied blessings which surround us, and for the very privilege of addressing you, which I now exercise.
Side 59 - When I was in Europe I thought that here almost every man was a lover of liberty, and would rather die free than live a slave. You can conceive my astonishment when I saw that toryism was as openly professed as whiggism itself...