LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 28] Document autographe signé Chester county, 26 juillet 1825 6 lignes
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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
