LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 6 and toast 6bis] Document autographe signé deux fois Yorktown, [18 octobre 1824] 8 lignes sur une seule page
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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)
