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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 28] Document autographe signé
Chester county, 26 juillet 1825
6 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À CHESTER. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN CHESTER. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette’s toast at the public dinner of Chester county.
Gal L.F. rose and after having expressed his thanks, gave the following
toast :
The county of Chester and the memory of the gallant fellow citizen
general Wayne. May the blood spilt by thousands with equal merit
in our struggle for independence and freedom be to the generations
an eternal pledge of unalloyed republicanism, federal union, public
prosperity and domestic happiness.”
“Twelve miles from the battlefield, at a stone bridge across
a creek near headquarters in Chester, Lafayette established
a control point that brought some order to the army’s fight.
Not until Washington and Greene relieved him did he go to
headquarters in Chester to have his wound properly bandaged.
When Washington and others finally arrived at the house where
Lafayette was being treated, he was lying on the dining-room
table” (James R. Gaines,
For Liberty and Glory. Washington,
Lafayette, and their Revolutions
, Norton, 2008, p. 74)
RÉFÉRENCE : Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 236
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O’FALLON
, John
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette
Saint Louis, 27 juillet 1825
2 pp. in-4
JOHN O’FALLON, PREMIÈRE FORTUNE DE SAINT LOUIS
ET NEVEU DU FAMEUX EXPLORATEUR WILLIAM CLARK,
PRÉSENTE UN NEVEU DE GEORGE CLARK À GEORGES
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE.
BY THE NEPHEW OF GEORGE CLARK
“I take the liberty of introducing to you an acquaintance my friend
Radford, stepson of George Clark, who having been appointed
midshipman in the Navy, in order to report himself at Washington, in
time to take passage on board the new frigate Brandywine (...) selected
to convey to France your excellent father”...
John O’Fallon (1791-1865) was a businessman and military
officer who became the wealthiest person in St. Louis. His
father, James O’Fallon, surgeon in Washington’s army, married
Frances Clark, a sister of George Rogers Clark and William
Clark, Army officers, who became famous in exploring the
Mississippi Valley. O’Fallon was assistant Indian Agent to
William Clark one of the promoters of the Pacific and the North
Missouri Railroads.
800 / 1 200
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