Washington Papers Consolidated Index | L | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Editorial Note [Diaries 3:340]
[Diary entry: 31 May 1781] [Diaries 3:375]
[Diary entry: 19 August 1781] [Diaries 3:413]+
[Diary entry: 17 October 1781] [Diaries 3:430]+
[Diary entry: 30 May 1785] [Diaries 4:147]+
[Diary entry: 26 October 1785] [Diaries 4:214]+
[Diary entry: 17 June 1787] [Diaries 5:170]+
[Diary entry: 12 October 1789] [Diaries 5:460]+
[Diary entry: 24 April 1791] [Diaries 6:120]+
[Diary entry: 28 February 1797] [Diaries 6:236]+
[Diary entry: 9 March 1797] [Diaries 6:237]+
[Diary entry: 14 March 1797] [Diaries 6:239]+
To Brigadier General John Sullivan, 20 January 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:157]+
To John Hancock, 17 August 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:650]+
From William Buchanan, 18 August 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:657]+
From Captain Thomas Cartwright, 14 February 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:530]+
To Henry Laurens, 10 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:464]+
From Jean-Baptiste-Lazare Théveneau de Francy, 10 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:94]
From John Cleves Symmes, 10 July 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:49]+
From Brigadier General Henry Knox, 2 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:479]+
From Vice Admiral d’Estaing, 29 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:185]
To Major General John Sullivan, 4 October 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:261]
To Patrick Henry, 14 October 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:375]+
From Gouverneur Morris, 26 October 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:588]
To George Augustine Washington, 21 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:253]+
From Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 28 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:330]+
From John Grizzage Frazer, 15 January 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 19:2]+
To Lieutenant Colonel William Butler, 25 March 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 19:601]+
From George Augustine Washington, 14 August 1784 [Confederation Series 2:41]+
From Nathanael Greene, 29 August 1784 [Confederation Series 2:60]
From Jacob Read, 22 October 1784 [Confederation Series 2:105]
From Henry Lee, Jr., 18 November 1784 [Confederation Series 2:140]
From Nathanael Greene, 2 December 1784 [Confederation Series 2:162]
To La Luzerne, 5 December 1784 [Confederation Series 2:174]+
To William Paca, 19 December 1784 [Confederation Series 2:196]+
From Benjamin Walker, 20 December 1784 [Confederation Series 2:225]
To Richard Henry Lee, 8 February 1785 [Confederation Series 2:333]+
From John Beckley, 11 February 1785 [Confederation Series 2:361]+
From Richard Henry Lee, 14 February 1785 [Confederation Series 2:362]
From Richard Henry Lee, 27 February 1785 [Confederation Series 2:396]
From Richard Henry Lee, 27 February 1785 [Confederation Series 2:397]+
To Charles MacIver, 1 March 1785 [Confederation Series 2:405]+
To Mathew Carey, 15 March 1785 [Confederation Series 2:434]+
To James Duane, 10 April 1785 [Confederation Series 2:486]
From David Humphreys, 10 May 1785 [Confederation Series 2:546]
From Barbé-Marbois, 12 June 1785 [Confederation Series 3:53]+
To William Blake, 30 June 1785 [Confederation Series 3:87]+
From David Humphreys, 17 July 1785 [Confederation Series 3:133]+
From William Grayson, 25 July 1785 [Confederation Series 3:148]+
To Thomas Ridout, 20 August 1785 [Confederation Series 3:193]+
From Benjamin Franklin, 20 September 1785 [Confederation Series 3:267]+
To Benjamin Franklin, 26 September 1785 [Confederation Series 3:275]+
To Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 5 October 1785 [Confederation Series 3:295]+
From Thomas Johnson, 4 November 1785 [Confederation Series 3:341]+
From Robert Pleasants, 11 December 1785 [Confederation Series 3:451]+
From St. John's Masonic Lodge, Newport, R.I., 1785 [Confederation Series 3:487]+
To Henry L. Charton, 20 May 1786 [Confederation Series 4:66]+
From Joseph Dashiell, 20 July 1786 [Confederation Series 4:163]+
From Mauduit du Plessis, 20 July 1786 [Confederation Series 4:165]+
To Henry Knox, 25 February 1787 [Confederation Series 5:53]+
To Lafayette, 21 July 1787 [Confederation Series 5:268]+
From Gardoqui, 9 November 1787 [Confederation Series 5:420]+
To La Luzerne, 7 February 1788 [Confederation Series 6:100]+
From Henry Knox, 21 December 1788 [Presidential Series 1:196]
From Rochambeau, 31 January 1789 [Presidential Series 1:268]
From Thomas Marshall, 12 February 1789 [Presidential Series 1:297]
From Gustavus Brown Wallace, 28 March 1789 [Presidential Series 1:461]+
From William Macpherson, 27 April 1789 [Presidential Series 2:138]
From James Gilliland, 31 May 1789 [Presidential Series 2:416]+
From John Skey Eustace, 24 July 1789 [Presidential Series 3:299]+
From the Board of Treasury, 14 August 1789 [Presidential Series 3:462]+
From Edward Newenham, 14–26 August 1789 [Presidential Series 3:463]
From Pierre Penet, 1789 [Presidential Series 4:498]
William Jackson to John Jay, 4 January 1790 [Presidential Series 4:528]+
From the Marquise de Lafayette, 14 January 1790 [Presidential Series 4:571]
From the Marquise de Lafayette, 14 January 1790 [Presidential Series 4:572]
From the Marquise de Lafayette, 14 January 1790 [Presidential Series 4:573]
From Gouverneur Morris, 22 January 1790 [Presidential Series 5:37]+
From Gouverneur Morris, 22 January 1790 [Presidential Series 5:39]
From Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 10 February 1790 [Presidential Series 5:127]
From William Gordon, 20 February 1790 [Presidential Series 5:160]
From George Clinton, 2 April 1790 [Presidential Series 5:304]+
From Noirmont de La Neuville, 10 April 1790 [Presidential Series 5:326]+
To La Luzerne, 29 April 1790 [Presidential Series 5:359]
From Beverley Randolph, 31 May 1790 [Presidential Series 5:446]+
From Gouverneur Morris, 30 August 1790 [Presidential Series 6:378]
To William Temple Franklin, 25 October 1790 [Presidential Series 6:582]+
Indenture with Thomas Green, 9 November 1790–14 December 1791 [Presidential Series 6:644]+
To the Rhode Island Legislature, 20 November 1790 [Presidential Series 6:675]+
From Gouverneur Morris, 22 November 1790 [Presidential Series 6:689]+
From Edward Newenham, 22 December 1791 [Presidential Series 9:304]
From John Kirwan, 2 February 1792 [Presidential Series 9:524]+
To Bryan Fairfax, 19 March 1792 [Presidential Series 10:134]+
From Henry Knox, 8 September 1792 [Presidential Series 11:84]
From Benjamin Flower, 17 March 1794 [Presidential Series 15:402]+
From Lameth and Duport, 21 July 1794 [Presidential Series 16:405]
To Thomas Sim Lee, 25 July 1794 [Presidential Series 16:433]+
From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 18 June 1797 [Retirement Series 1:196]+
From Alexander Spotswood, 23 June 1797 [Retirement Series 1:204]+
To Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 3 December 1797 [Retirement Series 1:496]+
To Louis La Colombe, 3 December 1797 [Retirement Series 1:497]+
To John Marshall, 4 December 1797 [Retirement Series 1:501]
To Rufus King, 6 December 1797 [Retirement Series 1:507]+
To James Anderson, 21 December 1797 [Retirement Series 1:527]+
From James Abercrombie, 25 May 1798 [Retirement Series 2:296]+
From Alexander Spotswood, 24 December 1798 [Retirement Series 3:279]+
From William B. Harrison, 24 January 1799 [Retirement Series 3:337]+
To James McHenry, 13 May 1799 [Retirement Series 4:73]+
To Richard Kidder Meade, 12 August 1799 [Retirement Series 4:246]
– id. [3 references]
– letters from [1 reference + 30 subentries]
– letters to [26 subentries]
– account of European travels [1 reference]
– account of skirmish [1 reference]
– accusations against [1 reference]
– activities in France [1 reference]
– administers oaths [1 reference]
– advises French king [1 reference]
– advises GW on gift of shares in Potomac and James River companies [1 reference]
– aides-de-camp of [2 references]
– aides [2 references]
– aides of [4 references]
– and abolition of slavery [1 reference]
– and agriculture [1 reference]
– and Aiguillon [1 reference]
– and Alexandre de Lameth [1 reference]
– and André Michaux [1 reference]
– and appointment of French minister [1 reference]
– and Armand's corps [2 references]
– and Armand's officers [1 reference]
– and Assembly of Notables [4 references]
– and Barbary corsairs [1 reference]
– and Barbary pirates [1 reference]
– and Barren Hill affair [4 references]
– and Bedel's regiment [1 reference]
– and Benedict Arnold [1 reference]
– and Brissot de Warville [4 references]
– and British clothing convoy [2 references]
– and Canadian expedition [16 references]
– and Catherine of Russia [1 reference]
– and Chartier de Lotbinière [2 references]
– and Chastel de La Vallée [1 reference]
– and Chastellux [1 reference]
– and Chavannes de La Giraudière [2 references]
– and chevalier d'Anterroches [2 references]
– and Christian Senf [1 reference]
– and Cincinnati entry in Encyclopédie [1 reference]
– and civil rights for blacks [1 reference]
– and Conway affair [1 reference]
– and copies of his letters [1 reference]
– and courts-martial [6 references]
– and Couteulx [2 references]
– and Crèvecoeur [1 reference]
– and d'Anterroche [1 reference]
– and d'Anterroches [2 references]
– and David Humphreys' mission [1 reference]
– and departure from America [4 references]
– and Doilliamson [1 reference]
– and Ducher [2 references]
– and Ebenezer Davis [1 reference]
– and Edward Newenham [1 reference]
– and engineer for Potomac River Company [1 reference]
– and European affairs [1 reference]
– and farmers-general [2 references]
– and Flanders [1 reference]
– and foreign officers [2 references]
– and fort for Oneida Indians [3 references]
– and Franco-American commercial relations [1 reference]
– and Franco-American relations [2 references]
– and free ports of France [5 references]
– and French developments [1 reference]
– and French elections [1 reference]
– and French hounds [1 reference]
– and French officers [3 references]
– and French politics [5 references]
– and French Protestants [3 references]
– and French Revolution [2 references]
– and George Augustine Washington [1 reference]
– and George Logan [2 references]
– and George Washington Greene [1 reference]
– and Gouverneur Morris [1 reference]
– and Gustavus Scott [1 reference]
– and his Cayenne plantation [2 references]
– and his Houdon bust [1 reference]
– and his opposition to slavery [2 references]
– and Houdon's busts of [1 reference]
– and hunting dogs for GW [1 reference]
– and imprisonment of [1 reference]
– and Indians [1 reference]
– and Indian recruitment [2 references]
– and Indian vocabularies [11 references]
– and Irish wolfhounds [1 reference]
– and I. Sailly [1 reference]
– and jackasses [2 references]
– and jackasses for GW [3 references]
– and James McHenry's memoir of [10 references]
– and James Rumsey [1 reference]
– and John Anderson [2 references]
– and John Francis Gaullier [1 reference]
– and John Paul Jones [1 reference]
– and Jorre [1 reference]
– and Joseph Anderson [1 reference]
– and Joseph-Leonard Poirey [1 reference]
– and key to Bastille [1 reference]
– and La Serre [1 reference]
– and La Touche-Tréville [1 reference]
– and L'Enfant [4 references]
– and Lewis Littlepage [2 references]
– and Lotbinière [1 reference]
– and Louis XVI [1 reference]
– and Mandrillon [2 references]
– and Martinus van Doorninck [1 reference]
– and Mathew Carey [2 references]
– and Mauduit du Plessis [3 references]
– and Mesmer [2 references]
– and Mesmer's “magnetism” [1 reference]
– and Mount Vernon visit [5 references]
– and Moustier [1 reference]
– and Murnan [1 reference]
– and new U.S. Spanish policy [1 reference]
– and packages for GW [2 references]
– and Peale's print of [1 reference]
– and Pierre-Charles Georgest [1 reference]
– and plans for free blacks [1 reference]
– and plants for Louis XVI [1 reference]
– and proposed expedition against Canada [1 reference]
– and Rhode Island expedition [5 references]
– and Saint-Simon-Montbléru [1 reference]
– and Sebastian Francisco de Miranda [1 reference]
– and Ségur [1 reference]
– and Society of 1789 [1 reference]
– and Society of the Cincinnati [9 references + 5 subentries]
– and Spanish-American affairs [1 reference]
– and Stephen Sayre [1 reference]
– and the chevaliers Gimat [1 reference]
– and Thomas Conway [2 references]
– and Thomas Paine [1 reference]
– and toys for GW's wards [6 references]
– and Tubeuf [1 reference]
– and U.S. Constitution [4 references]
– and U.S. relations with France [2 references]
– and Valley Forge defenses [4 references]
– and Van der Kemp [2 references]
– and Vienne [1 reference]
– and Virginia campaign 1781 [20 references]
– and Virginia hams [2 references]
– and Vision of Columbus [1 reference]
– and visit to Boston [2 references]
– and visit to Virginia [7 references]
– and whale oil [1 reference]
– and William Gordon [1 reference]
– appointed major general [2 references]
– appointment [1 reference]
– army of [2 references]
– arrival in America [1 reference]
– arrival of in U.S. (1784) [1 reference]
– arrives at camp [1 reference]
– arrives in Philadelphia [2 references]
– as George Washington Greene's guardian [1 reference]
– asked to mediate for French [2 references]
– asks for his letters to GW [1 reference]
– assistance to [2 references]
– at Barren Hill [1 reference]
– at Battle of Brandywine [2 references]
– at Bethlehem, Pa. [1 reference]
– at council of war [2 references]
– at Fishkill, N.Y. [1 reference]
– at Providence, R.I. [1 reference]
– attends councils [3 references]
– attends Iroquois peace congress [2 references]
– at Williamsburg [1 reference]
– at Yorktown [5 references]
– campaigns for office [2 references]
– capture and imprisonment of [8 references]
– champions French Protestants [1 reference]
– command of [10 references]
– commends officers [1 reference]
– comments on [2 references]
– comments on European political situation [3 references]
– compared to GW [1 reference]
– compliments [1 reference]
– concern for [3 references]
– continuing help of to U. S. [3 references]
– conveys letters [7 references]
– criticism of [1 reference]
– delayed [1 reference]
– describes visit to Mount Vernon [2 references]
– desires Franco-American reconciliation [3 references]
– desires furlough [2 references]
– division [6 references]
– drinking habits of [1 reference]
– during Revolutionary War [3 references]
– Edward Newenham's opinion of [1 reference]
– efforts to aid [5 references]
– efforts to obtain release of [6 references]
– engravings of [5 references]
– entrusted with secret [1 reference]
– expresses love for American army [1 reference]
– family portrait of [1 reference]
– first meeting with GW [1 reference]
– flight of [1 reference]
– gifts to GW [1 reference]
– given Virginia citizenship [1 reference]
– gives donkeys to GW [1 reference]
– gives GW key to Bastille [2 references]
– gives portrait of GW to Newenhams [1 reference]
– Gouverneur Morris asked to forward letter to [1 reference]
– greetings from [1 reference]
– groom for [1 reference]
– GW comments on [1 reference]
– GW fears for safety of [1 reference]
– GW recommends [1 reference]
– GW's concern for [1 reference]
– GW sends copy of Constitution to [2 references]
– GW's opinion of [4 references]
– hams for [1 reference]
– health of [2 references]
– his gift of asses and birds [6 references]
– his letters sent to [2 references]
– his views of Shays' Rebellion [1 reference]
– horse for [2 references]
– identifies fleet [2 references]
– illness of [5 references]
– imprisonment of [17 references]
– in Battle of Monmouth [1 reference]
– in GW's will [2 references]
– in Hamburg [1 reference]
– in order of march [2 references]
– in raptures [1 reference]
– inspects army [1 reference]
– introduces Brissot [1 reference]
– introduces Chastel de La Vallée [1 reference]
– introduces Michaux [1 reference]
– introduction for Gouverneur Morris [2 references]
– invites Bushrod Washington to Paris [1 reference]
– La Luzerne's comments on [1 reference]
– leads detachment [5 references]
– leaves Boston [1 reference]
– letters forwarded [1 reference]
– letters forwarded to [1 reference]
– letters of forwarded [4 references]
– letters of introduction from [5 references]
– liberation of [9 references]
– loan from [2 references]
– made Maryland citizen [1 reference]
– Mandrillon comments on [1 reference]
– meets with GW [1 reference]
– military action [1 reference]
– military command of [3 references]
– military family of [1 reference]
– on board of general officers [2 references]
– on council of war [3 references]
– on parade [1 reference]
– opinion of [5 subentries]
– opinion of Jefferson [1 reference]
– ordered to rejoin main army [4 references]
– orders for detachment [1 reference]
– packages for [1 reference]
– packages from [5 references]
– political difficulties of [1 reference]
– political situation of [1 reference]
– portrait of [1 reference]
– portraits of [1 reference]
– praised [2 references]
– praises GW [1 reference]
– problems with French government [4 references]
– proposal to obtain freedom of [2 references]
– proposed visit of to America [19 references]
– quarters [2 references]
– reads newspaper [1 reference]
– receives information [1 reference]
– recommends Béhague [1 reference]
– recommends M. de Tavernol [1 reference]
– recommends Vrigny [1 reference]
– reconnoiters with GW [1 reference]
– recovers from wound [1 reference]
– relations with Nathanael Greene [1 reference]
– release of [7 references]
– reputation [1 reference]
– requests trees for Versailles [1 reference]
– retirement of [2 references]
– returns to camp [1 reference]
– returns to France [3 references]
– return to France [1 reference]
– Revolutionary War accounts [1 reference]
– rumored appointment as French ambassador [2 references]
– seeks duel [10 references]
– sends draft maps [1 reference]
– sends GW hunting dogs [1 reference]
– sends GW jackasses and pheasants [4 references]
– sends jackass [1 reference]
– Silas Deane's letter of introduction [1 reference]
– sent to d'Estaing [6 references]
– staff of [1 reference]
– travels of [2 references]
– travels to Annapolis with GW [3 references]
– urges GW to accept presidency [1 reference]
– views of American government [1 reference]
– views of European situation [2 references]
– views of Federal Convention [1 reference]
– views of U.S.-French relations [1 reference]
– views on [1 reference + 7 subentries]
– visits Congress [2 references]
– warm reception of in America [1 reference]
– writes to Henry Knox [1 reference]