LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 22] Document autographe signé Whitehall, 30 juin 1825 7 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ .SITUÉ À CÔTÉ DE SARATOGA ,À WHITEHALL EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN WHITEHALL. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette’s toast at Whitehall. The landing place from which it had been promised in the British parliament that an invading army should travel through the rebel country and take their winter quarters at Boston : May the town of Whitehall ever enjoy the result of the manner in which that pledge has been redeemed" “The following day, June 30, about noon, we arrived at Whitehall, where General Lafayette disembarked under a canopy formed of two hundred flags of all nations, to the thunder of artillery, and between two lines of girls who scattered flowers over him as he passed. Whitehall is celebrated in the history of the Revolutionary war. General Burgoyne boasted in Parliament, at London, that those whom he called the rebels of America, were soon incapable of resisting, that with five thousand regular troops he would march from Canada to Boston, where he would take up his winter quarters. He embarked in fact with his army on Lake Champlain, disembarked at Whitehall, and not far from the latter place, at Saratoga, he was compelled to capitulate, and passed, it is true, the winter at Boston, but as a prisoner of war" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 215)
