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L'amour paternel qui a toujours animè le coeur du roy pour les habitans du Canada : et le desir de les soustraire à la domination des Anglois, ont determiné Sa Majesté a envoyer dans un des ports Americains des forces de terre et de mer capables d'effectuer ce grand objet.

Author/creator United States. Continental Army
Other author/creatorLafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
Format Book and Microform
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1780]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43900
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43900. ^A478749
General noteProposing a confederation between the United States and Canada, and a joint military expedition of French and American land and sea forces to liberate Canada from the British.
General noteSigned and dated: Fait au quartier general, de [blank] Sur la riviere de Connecticut, le [blank] mille sept ceus quatre vingts. Signé La Fayette. ...
General noteA draft of Lafayette's address was sent to Benedict Arnold at Philadelphia on June 4, 1780, with instructions to find a discreet printer. Cf. Idzerda, S.J., ed. Lafayette in the age of the American Revolution, 1980, vol. III, p. 39.
References Bristol B5192
References Shipton & Mooney 43900
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43900).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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Joyner NC Microfiche MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 43900 ✔ Available