L' amour paternel qui a toujours anime le coeur du roy pour les habitans du Canada, et le desir de les soustraire a la domination des Anglois, ont determine Sa Majesie a envoyer dans un des ports Americains des forces de terre et de mer capable d'effectuer ce grand objet.
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French Participation, History, Naval operationsPlaces
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Revolution, 1775-1783
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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.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17038)
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