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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 6 and toast 6bis] Document autographe signé deux fois
Yorktown, [18 octobre 1824]
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DEUX TOASTS EN MÉMOIRE DU SIÈGE DE YORKTOWN.
EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE, TOUJOURS A LA TROISIÈME
PERSONNE.
TWO TOASTS IN THE MEMORY OF THE SIEGE OF
YORKTOWN. LAFAYETTE’S COPIES, IN THE THIRD PERSON
“Gal Lafayette’s first toast.
After having presented his affectionate thanks and remembered his
obligation to the state of Virginia, he offered the following toast :
Yorktown and may the pretentions and the arms of the insurgees of
national rights every (?) when be surrendered to popular good sense
and patriotic energy
Gal Lafayette’s second toast.
To the memory of Colonel Scammel and of the soldiers of both nations
who fell on the Siege of Yorktown”
Alexander Scammell (1747-1781) was wounded on September
30, 1781 near Yorktown and subsequently died on October
6 in Williamsburg, Virginia making him the highest ranking
American officer killed during the Siege of Yorktown.
“Lafayette was conducted amid the acclamations of the people,
to the head quarters prepared for him. It was in the very house
that Cornwallis inhabited during the siege of Yorktown, forty-
three years previous. Yorktown, which has never recovered
from the disasters of the Revolutionary war, because its
unhealthy situation prevented the access of new inhabitants,
appeared from its actual condition very properly adapted to
the celebration which was to take place the following day :
houses in ruins, blackened by fire, or pierced by bullets ; the
ground covered with fragments of arms, the broken shells, and
overturned gun-carriages” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, I,
p. 183)
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