L'amour paternel qui a toujours animè le coeur du roy pour les habitans du Canada
Subtitle: 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
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43900
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: fre
Format: [microform] :
Subjects: History; French Participation
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. Signé 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