L'amour paternel qui a toujours anime   le coeur du roy pour les habitans du Canada
Subtitle: et le desir de les soustraire a   la domination des Anglois, ont determine  Sa Majeste  a envoyer dans un des ports Americains des forces de terre et de mer capables d'effectuer ce grand objet.
Contributors: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43900.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: fre
Format: Microform
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation.; Canada -- History -- 1763-1791.
Notes: Proposing 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.

Signed and dated: Fait au quartier general, de [blank] Sur la riviere de Connecticut, le [blank] mille sept ceus quatre vingts. Signe  La Fayette. ..

A 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.

Bristol B5192.

Shipton & Mooney 43900.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43900)