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These two redoubts were key to breaking the British defenses. Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolution, but the British still held several major port cities. Lafayette wanted to lead expeditions to capture them, but Washington felt that he would be more useful seeking additional naval support from France. It also sent Louis XVI an official letter of commendation on the marquis's behalf.
Lafayette left Boston for France on 18 December where he was welcomed as a hero, and he was received at the Palace of Versailles on 22 January He witnessed the birth of his daughter, whom he named Marie-Antoinette Virginie upon Thomas Jefferson's recommendation.
He worked on a combined French and Spanish expedition against the British West Indies in , as no formal peace treaty had yet been signed. The Treaty of Paris was signed between Great Britain and the United States in , which made the expedition unnecessary; Lafayette took part in those negotiations. Lafayette worked with Jefferson to establish trade agreements between the United States and France which aimed to reduce America's debt to France. He urged the emancipation of slaves and their establishment as tenant farmers in a letter to Washington, who was a slave owner. Lafayette visited America in — where he enjoyed an enthusiastic welcome, visiting all the states.
The trip included a visit to Washington's farm at Mount Vernon on 17 August. He addressed the Virginia House of Delegates where he called for "liberty of all mankind" and urged emancipation of slaves, [79] and he urged the Pennsylvania Legislature to help form a federal union the states were then bound by the Articles of Confederation. He visited the Mohawk Valley in New York to participate in peace negotiations with the Iroquois, some of whom he had met in Maryland's legislature honored him by making him and his male heirs "natural born Citizens" of the state, which made him a natural-born citizen of the United States after the ratification of the Constitution.
He also sought to correct the injustices that Huguenots in France had endured since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes a century before. The king appointed Lafayette to the body, which convened on 22 February Lafayette was elected as a representative of the nobility the Second Estate from Riom. The Estates General convened on 5 May ; debate began on whether the delegates should vote by head or by Estate.
If by Estate, then the nobility and clergy would be able to outvote the commons; if by head, then the larger Third Estate could dominate. Before the meeting, as a member of the "Committee of Thirty", Lafayette agitated for voting by head, rather than estate. This action led to the Tennis Court Oath , where the excluded members swore to not separate until a constitution was established. The king had the royal army under the duc de Broglie surround Paris.
On 15 July, Lafayette was acclaimed commander-in-chief of the National Guard of France, an armed force established to maintain order under the control of the Assembly. This combined the red and blue colors of the city of Paris with the royal white, and originated the French tricolor.
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The National Assembly approved the Declaration on 26 August, [] but the king rejected it on 2 October. Members of the National Guard followed the march, with Lafayette reluctantly leading them. At Versailles, the king accepted the Assembly's votes on the Declaration, but refused requests to go to Paris, and the crowd broke into the palace at dawn.
Lafayette took the royal family onto the palace balcony and attempted to restore order, [] [] but the crowd insisted that the king and his family move to Paris and the Tuileries Palace. She returned alone and people shouted to shoot her, but she stood her ground and no one opened fire. Lafayette kissed her hand, leading to cheers from the crowd.
As leader of the National Guard, Lafayette attempted to maintain order and steer a middle ground, even as the radicals gained increasing influence. Lafayette continued to work for order in the coming months. He and part of the National Guard left the Tuileries on 28 February to handle a conflict in Vincennes, and hundreds of armed nobles arrived at the Tuileries to defend the king while he was gone.
However, there were rumors that these nobles had come to take the king away and place him at the head of a counter-revolution. Lafayette quickly returned to the Tuileries and disarmed the nobles after a brief standoff. The event came to be known as the Day of Daggers , and it boosted Lafayette's popularity with the French people for his quick actions to protect the king. A plot known as the Flight to Varennes almost enabled the king to escape from France on 20 June Lafayette had been responsible for the royal family's custody as leader of the National Guard, and he was thus blamed by extremists such as Georges Danton and called a traitor to the people by Maximilien Robespierre.
He continued to urge the constitutional rule of law, but he was drowned out by the mob and its leaders. Lafayette's public standing continued to decline through the latter half of The radical Cordeliers organized an event at the Champ de Mars on 17 July to gather signatures on a petition to the National Assembly that it either abolish the monarchy or allow its fate to be decided in a referendum.
Lafayette rode into the Champ de Mars at the head of his troops to restore order, but they were met with gunshots and stones. When a dragoon went down, the soldiers fired on the crowd , wounding and killing dozens. Martial law was declared, and the leaders of the mob fled and went into hiding, such as Danton and Jean-Paul Marat.
The Assembly finalized a constitution in September, and Lafayette resigned from the National Guard in early October with a semblance of constitutional law restored. His reputation among the common people suffered dramatically after the massacre, as they believed that he sympathized with royal interests. Lafayette returned to his home province of Auvergne in October Lafayette, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General on 30 June , received command of one of the three armies, the Army of the Centre , based at Metz, on 14 December This emotion was common in the army, as demonstrated after the Battle of Marquain , when the routed French troops dragged their leader to Lille , where he was torn to pieces by the mob.
One of the army commanders, Rochambeau, resigned. In June , Lafayette criticized the growing influence of the radicals through a letter to the Assembly from his field post, [] and ended his letter by calling for their parties to be "closed down by force". Lafayette went there, and on 28 June delivered a fiery speech before the Assembly denouncing the Jacobins and other radical groups.
He was instead accused of deserting his troops.
Lafayette called for volunteers to counteract the Jacobins; when only a few people showed up, he understood the public mood and hastily left Paris. Robespierre called him a traitor and the mob burned him in effigy. The 25 July Brunswick Manifesto , which warned that Paris would be destroyed by the Austrians and Prussians if the king was harmed, led to the downfall of Lafayette, and of the royal family. A mob attacked the Tuileries on 10 August, and the king and queen were imprisoned at the Assembly, then taken to the Temple.
The Assembly abolished the monarchy—the king and queen would be beheaded in the coming months. On 14 August, the minister of justice, Danton, put out a warrant for Lafayette's arrest. Lafayette was taken prisoner by the Austrians near Rochefort when another former French officer, Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy , asked for rights of transit through Austrian territory on behalf of a group of French officers.
This was initially granted, as it had been for others fleeing France, but was revoked when the famous Lafayette was recognized. Lafayette was held at Nivelles , [] then transferred to Luxembourg where a coalition military tribunal declared him, de Pusy, and two others to be prisoners of state for their roles in the Revolution. The tribunal ordered them held until a restored French king could render final judgment on them.
The party travelled to the Prussian fortress-city of Wesel , where the Frenchmen remained in verminous individual cells in the central citadel from 19 September to 22 December Frederick William decided that he could gain little by continuing to battle the unexpectedly successful French forces, and that there were easier pickings for his army in the Kingdom of Poland. Lafayette and his companions were initially sent to Neisse today Nysa, Poland in Silesia.
On 17 May , they were taken across the Austrian border, where a military unit was waiting to receive them. Lafayette, when captured, had tried to use the American citizenship he had been granted to secure his release, and contacted William Short , United States minister in The Hague. Washington, who was by then president, had instructed the envoys to avoid actions that entangled the country in European affairs, [] and the U.
Secretary of State Jefferson found a loophole allowing Lafayette to be paid, with interest, for his services as a major general from to An act was rushed through Congress and signed by President Washington. These funds allowed both Lafayettes privileges in their captivity. A more direct means of aiding the former general was an escape attempt sponsored by Alexander Hamilton's sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler Church and her husband John Barker Church , a British Member of Parliament who had served in the Continental Army.
This was the son of Benjamin Huger, whom Lafayette had stayed with upon his first arrival in America. Once Adrienne was released from prison in France, she, with the help of U. Minister to France James Monroe , obtained passports for her and her daughters from Connecticut, which had granted the entire Lafayette family citizenship. Lafayette, who had endured harsh solitary confinement since his escape attempt a year before, was astounded when soldiers opened his prison door to usher in his wife and daughters on 15 October The family spent the next two years in confinement together.
Through diplomacy, the press, and personal appeals, Lafayette's sympathizers on both sides of the Atlantic made their influence felt, most importantly on the post- Reign of Terror French government. Lafayette's captivity of over five years thus came to an end. From Hamburg, Lafayette sent a note of thanks to General Bonaparte.
The French government, the Directorate , was unwilling to have Lafayette return unless he swore allegiance, which he was not willing to do, as he believed it had come to power by unconstitutional means. As revenge, it had his remaining properties sold, leaving him a pauper. The family, soon joined by Georges Washington, who had returned from America, recuperated on a property near Hamburg belonging to Adrienne's aunt. Due to conflict between the United States and France , Lafayette could not go to America as he had hoped, making him a man without a country.
Adrienne was able to go to Paris, and attempted to secure her husband's repatriation, flattering Bonaparte, who had returned to France after more victories. Bonaparte expressed rage, but Adrienne was convinced he was simply posing, and proposed to him that Lafayette would pledge his support, then would retire from public life to a property she had reclaimed, La Grange. France's new ruler allowed Lafayette to remain, though originally without citizenship and subject to summary arrest if he engaged in politics, with the promise of eventual restoration of civil rights.
Lafayette remained quietly at La Grange, and when Bonaparte held a memorial service in Paris for Washington, who had died in December , Lafayette was not invited, nor was his name mentioned. Bonaparte restored Lafayette's citizenship on 1 March and he was able to recover some of his properties. France's ruler also offered to make him minister to the United States, but Lafayette would not have anything to do with Napoleon's government and firmly refused. In , he was part of the tiny minority that voted no in the referendum that made Bonaparte consul for life. In , Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor Napoleon after a plebiscite in which Lafayette did not participate.
The retired general remained relatively quiet, although he made Bastille Day addresses. During a trip to Auvergne in , Adrienne became ill, suffering from complications stemming from her time in prison. She became delirious but recovered enough on Christmas Eve to gather the family around her bed and to say to Lafayette: Many influential people and members of the public visited him, especially Americans. He wrote many letters, especially to Jefferson, and exchanged gifts as he had once done with Washington.
Lafayette was received by the new king, but the staunch republican opposed the new, highly restrictive franchise for the Chamber of Deputies that granted the vote to only 90, men in a nation of 25 million. Lafayette did not stand for election in , remaining at La Grange. There was discontent in France among demobilized soldiers and others. Frenchmen flocked to his banner, and he took Paris later that month, causing Louis to flee to Ghent.
Lafayette refused Napoleon's call to serve in the new government, [] but accepted election to the new Chamber of Representatives under the Charter of There, after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo , Lafayette called for his abdication. Responding to the emperor's brother Lucien , Lafayette argued:.
By what right do you dare accuse the nation of The nation has followed him on the fields of Italy, across the sands of Egypt and the plains of Germany, across the frozen deserts of Russia. The nation has followed him in fifty battles, in his defeats and in his victories, and in doing so we have to mourn the blood of three million Frenchmen. On 22 June , four days after Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated. Lafayette arranged for the former emperor's passage to America, but the British prevented this, and Napoleon ended his days on the island of Saint Helena.
Once the Prussians left in late , Lafayette returned to his house, a private citizen again. Lafayette's homes, both in Paris and at La Grange, were open to any Americans who wished to meet the hero of their Revolution, and to many other people besides. Among those whom Irish novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan met at table during her month-long stay at La Grange in were the Dutch painter Ary Scheffer and the historian Augustin Thierry , who sat alongside American tourists.
During the first decade of the Bourbon Restoration , Lafayette lent his support to a number of conspiracies in France and other European countries, all of which came to nothing.
He was involved in the various Charbonnier plots, and agreed to go to the city of Belfort , where there was a garrison of French troops, and assume a major role in the revolutionary government. Warned that the royal government had found out about the conspiracy, he turned back on the road to Belfort, avoiding overt involvement. More successfully, he supported the Greek Revolution beginning in , and by letter attempted to persuade American officials to ally with the Greeks.
Lafayette remained a member of the restored Chamber of Deputies until , when new plural voting rules helped defeat his bid for re-election. President James Monroe and Congress invited Lafayette to visit the United States in , in part to celebrate the nation's upcoming 50th anniversary. He was greeted by a group of Revolutionary War veterans who had fought alongside him many years before.
New York erupted for four continuous days and nights of celebration. He then departed for what he thought would be a restful trip to Boston but instead found the route lined by cheering citizens, with welcomes organized in every town along the way. According to Unger, "It was a mystical experience they would relate to their heirs through generations to come.
Lafayette had materialized from a distant age, the last leader and hero at the nation's defining moment. They knew they and the world would never see his kind again. New York, Boston, and Philadelphia did their best to outdo each other in the celebrations honoring Lafayette. Philadelphia renovated the Old State House today Independence Hall which might otherwise have been torn down, because they needed a location for a reception to him.
Until that point, it had not been usual in the United States to build monuments, but Lafayette's visit set off a wave of construction—usually with him laying the cornerstone himself, in his capacity as mason. The arts benefited by his visit, as well, as many cities commissioned portraits for their civic buildings, and the likenesses were seen on innumerable souvenirs. Lafayette had intended to visit only the original 13 states during a four-month visit, but the stay stretched to 16 months as he visited all 24 states. The towns and cities that he visited gave him enthusiastic welcomes, including Fayetteville, North Carolina , the first city named in his honor.
He went to Mount Vernon in Virginia as he had 40 years before, this time viewing Washington's grave. He was at Yorktown on 19 October for the anniversary of Cornwallis's surrender, then journeyed to Monticello to meet with his old friend Jefferson—and Jefferson's successor James Madison , who arrived unexpectedly. He had also dined with year-old John Adams at his home near Boston, who was the other living former president. With the roads becoming impassable, Lafayette stayed in Washington City for the winter of —25, and thus was there for the climax of the hotly contested election in which no presidential candidate was able to secure a majority of the Electoral College , throwing the decision to the House of Representatives.
In March , Lafayette began to tour the southern and western states. There would be special events, visits to battlefields and historic sites, celebratory dinners, and time set aside for the public to meet the legendary hero of the Revolution. He was traveling up the Ohio River by steamboat when the vessel sank beneath him, and he was put in a lifeboat by his son and secretary, then taken to the Kentucky shore and rescued by another steamboat that was going in the other direction. Its captain insisted on turning around, however, and taking Lafayette to Louisville, Kentucky.
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