L'amour paternel qui a toujours animè le coeur du roy pour les habitans du Canada, et le desir de les soustraire á la domination des Anglois, ont determiné Sa Majesié a envoyer dans un des ports Americains des forces de terre et de mer capable d'effectuer ce grand objet
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17038
Publisher: Printed by David C. Claypoole
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: fre
Format: [microform]
Subjects: History; French Participation; Naval operations
Other titles: Amour paternel qui a toujours animè le coeur du roy...
Notes: Proclamation to the Canadians thats purpose was to deceive the British into believing that the destination of the awaited French fleet under Rochambeau was Canada. Cf. Gottschalk, L. Lafayette and the close of the American Revolution, 1942, p. 82, 87.

Signed at end: La Fayette.

According to the Library of Congress, "in a letter from Benedict Arnold to General Washington dated Philadelphia, June 7, 1780, Arnold states definitely that it was printed by Mr. Claypoole in Second Street." Formerly thought to be an imprint of the French Fleet Press, Newport.

Printed in two columns.

Evans 17038

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 821