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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 8] Document autographe signé
Jug Bridge, près de Frederick, [24 décembre 1824]
8 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À JUG BRIDGE, PRÈS DE FREDERICK. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN JUG BRIDGE, NEAR FREDERICK. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“after having expressed his thanks, Gal Lafayette gave the following toast :
The City and county of Frederick and may their beautiful hills and valleys continue more and
more to enjoy the blessings of fertility, industry, republican institutions and domsetic happiness.
Being called upon for a volunteer toast he gave : the old Maryland line, and the young Frederick
volunteers”
“In returning to Washington, we went by Fredericktown, where the general was
received with enthusiasm by the population, and by a great number of his former
companions in arms (…) At the public banquet given to him by the town, the table
was lighted by a candelabra supporting an immense quantity of candles, the base
of which was an enormous fragment of a bomb shell used at the siege of Yorktown”
(Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 22)
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