Authors: Harlow Giles Unger
Newport campaign failure
peace negotiations
Saratoga victory
sniper tactics
Southern campaign
Treaty of Paris signing
troop supplies and training
Washington’s strategic deception
Yorktown campaign and surrender
See also individual battles and campaigns
André, John
Arnold, Benedict
Articles of Confederation
Artois, comte d’.
See
Charles X
Assembly of Notables (French)
Aubert-La Fayette, Geneviève and Michel
Austria
French royal family and
Lafayette’s capture by
Lafayette’s imprisonment by
Lafayette viewed as dangerous by
Auvergne
Auvergne assembly
Ayen, duc d’ (Jean-Paul François de Noailles; father-in-law)
birth of grandson and
as émigré
Lafayette and
remarriage of
Ayen, duchesse d’ (mother-in-law)
burial site of
guillotining of, xviii,
333
objection to Adrienne’s betrothal by
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
guillotining of
Louis XVI and
as mayor of Paris
resignation as mayor
Barren Hill, Pa.
barrières
Bastille
razing of
storming of
Beauchet, Marie-Josèphe
Belgium
Bentham, Jeremy
Black Musketeers
mob attack on
Bollmann, Justus-Erich
Bonaparte, Joseph
Bonaparte, Lucien
Bonaparte, Napoléon.
See
Napoléon I
Bonhomme Richard
(ship)
Boston
Lafayette welcome
mourning for Lafayette
Bouillé, marquis de
Bourbons.
See
monarchy, French Bowdoin, James
Braddock, Edward
Brandywine, Battle of
Brienne, Loménie de
Broglie, Charles-François, comte de,
33
Brunswick, duke of
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill Monument
Bureaux de Pusy, Jean-Xavier
Bureaux de Pusy-La Fayette, Gilbert
Burgoyne, John
Burr, Aaron
Cabot, George
Cadwalader, John
“Ça ira, ça ira!” (song)
Caldwell, John Edwards
Calhoun, John C.
Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de
Camden, S.C.
Canada
Lafayette aborted invasion mission
Lafayette argument to retake
“Captivity of La Fayette, The” (poem)
Caraman, chevalier de
Carbonari
Carmichael, William
Catherine the Great, czarina of Russia
Catholicism.
See
Roman Catholic Church
Chadd’s Ford, Pa.
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber of Peers
Chambray, René, marquis de
Champ de Mars
Charbonniers
Charlemagne
Charles III, king of Spain
Charles IV, king of Spain
Charles VII, king of France
Charles X, king of France, xix
abdication of
pamphlet campaign against
repressive policies of
revolution against
succession to throne
Charleston, S.C.
British occupation of
Chavaniac
Adrienne’s first visit to
American-sponsored restoration of, xix
description of
feeding of starving peasants by
Jacobin pillage of
Lafayette’s childhood at
Lafayette’s restoration of
citizen soldiers (American)
citizen soldiers (French)
Fête de la Fédération
and
Lafayette’s belief in
See also
National Guard (French)
Clay, Henry
Clinton, George
Clinton, Sir Henry
Cornwallis and
Washington’s campaign against
Washington’s deception of
Cochran, John
Collège de Plessis
Committee of Public Safety (Paris)
Condorcet, marquis de
Congress of the United States
first members
French undeclared war and
Lafayette’s address to
mourning for Lafayette by
Olmütz prisoners and
opening of western lands by
See also
Continental Congress
Congress of Vienna
Constitutional Charter (France)
Constitutional Convention (U.S.)
constitutionalists, French
Jacobins and
radicals and
reasons for failure of
constitutional monarchy
Constitution of the United States
constitutions, French
approval of first (1791)
Consulate
Continental Congress
army mutineers and
Canadian project and
congratulations to Washington by
critics of Washington
d’Estaing support by
foreign military commissions and
French Assembly compared with
French loans to
impotency of
Lafayette and
Lafayette’s farewell speech to
last meeting of
privileged members of
retreat from Philadelphia by
See also
Congress of the United States
Continental dollar
Continental System
Contrat Social, Le
(Rousseau)
Conway, Thomas
Conway Cabal
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cooper, Samuel
Corday, Charlotte
Cordeliers
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, xviii
Carolina campaign
Lafayette and
Laurens prisoner exchange for
pilfering of Monticello by
Virginia campaign
Washington’s southern strategy and
Yorktown surrender
corvée
Council of Elders (les Anciens)
Council of Five Hundred (les Cinq-Cents)
Coupe-Tête, Jourdan
guillotining of
Court party (ultraroyalist)
Cowpens, Battle of
Crèvecoeur, Jean de
Cross of St. Louis
Custis, George Washington
Danton, Georges-Jacques
guillotining of
rabble-rousing by
radical takeover and
Deane, Silas
Deane, Simeon
Declaration of Independence
fifth anniversary celebration
Lafayette display of
Declaration of the Rights of Man
factional reinterpretation of
Jacobin version of
Lafayette and Jefferson writing of
Louis XVI and
National Assembly approval/expansion of
replacement by “bourgeois republic” leaders
Denmark
Desmoulins, Camille
guillotining of
Directory
divine right of kings
challenges to
restoration in France
Roman Catholic tradition and
Doniol, Henri, xx
drought
Du Buysson, Chevalier
Du Coudray, Philippe-Trouson
Duer, William
Dunn, Susan
Edict of Nantes
Elba (island)
Elizabeth, Madame
émigrés
restoration of citizenship to
England.
See
Great Britain Enlightenment
Enragés
(“madmen”)
Essai sur les privilèges
(Sieyès)
Estaing, Charles-Henri, comte d’
Hancock and
Lafayette and
Newport campaign
personality of
plans for Canada and
Society of the Cincinnati and
West Indies and
Estates General
European monarchs
fear of revolution by
hatred of Lafayette by
mockery of Louis-Philippe by
European revolutionaries
Eustis, William
famine
Fayette County, Pa.
Fayetteville, N.C.
Fayettistes
ferme
explanation of
Lafayette manifesto against
Fête de la Fédération
(1790)
restaging in 1830
feudalism
First Estate
First French Republic
Florida
Fort Ticonderoga
Francis, archduke of Austria
Francis I, emperor of Austria
Franklin, Benjamin
on Adams (John) personality
American trade promotion by
British peace negotiations and
Freemasonry and
Lafayette and, xix, xxi
on naming of Lafayette daughter
Treaty of Paris signing
Franklin, William (grandson)
Fraunces Tavern (N.Y.)
Frederick II, emperor of Austria
Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, xix
Frederick William II, king of Prussia
freedom of religion
freedom of the press
incendiary propaganda and
Freemasonry
in America
free trade
Lafayette championship of, xvii
French-American amity and commerce treaty (1778)
French-American undeclared war
French and Indian War
French Assembly.
See
National Assembly
French colonialism
French Convention
“French disease,”
French Guyana, xxii
French language
French-Prussian War (1870)
French Revolution (1789–1799)
background
Bastille seizure and
class warfare and
counterrevolutionaries
émigrés from
European monarchs’ fears of
genocidal legacy of, xix guillotine invention and
Jacobin triumvirate and
Lafayette’s disgust with
Lafayette’s ideals and, xviii
official end of
outbreak of
propagandists
radicalization of
religious civil war and
royal family and
savagery of, xviii
Terror phase, xviii, xix
thwarted outcome of, xviii
Washington’s critique of
world wars of, xviii
French Revolution (1830)
French Revolution (1848)
French West Indies.
See
West Indies
Frestel, Félix
fur trade
gabelle
(salt tax)
Gallican church
Gates, Horatio
letter to d’Estaing by
Saratoga victory and
Southern Department command
Geismer, baron de
gender equality, xvii
Genêt, Edmond Charles
George III, king of Great Britain
Georgia
Germaine, Lord George
Germantown, Pa.
Gerry, Elbridge
Gimat, Jean-Joseph Sourbader de
Girondins
Gloucester, duke of
Gloucester, skirmish at
Grand Guignol
Grasse, comte de
capture by British
Gravier, Charles.
See
Vergennes, comte de
Great Britain
Adams as minister to
American trade agreement
in coalition against France
French diplomatic relations
French émigrés in
French-Spanish invasion plan
French wars against
Lafayette’s coastal raid plan
Lafayette’s Olmütz imprisonment and
Lafayette’s visit to
naval war with America
privateering by
taxation of colonies by, xviii
Treaty of Paris and
See also
American Revolution
Greece
Greene, Caty
Greene, George Washington
Greene, Nathanael, xix
background of
Carolina campaign
Lafayette and
letter of apology to d’Estaing
Monmouth battle and
monument to
as quartermaster general
as Washington loyalist
West Point command by
Guérin, Charlotte (Lafayette aunt),
333
Guérin, Marie de (Lafayette cousin)
Guilford Courthouse, battle of
Guillaume Tell
(opera)
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
guillotine, xviii
mass executions by
procedure of
Robespierre’s death by
victims’ mass burial site,
33
2–
33
Hamilton, Alexander
Arnold’s treason and
background of
death in duel
French-American undeclared war and
Lafayette and, xix, xx
as Washington’s military aide
Yorktown and
Hampton Roads, Va.
Hancock, Dolly
Hancock, John
as d’Estaing host
Lafayette and
Hand, Edward
Hartford, Conn.
Lafayette as honorary citizen
Harvard College
Lafayette honorary doctorate
Henry IV, king of France
Henry, Patrick
Hessians
internment in Virginia
Hôtel de Noailles (Paris)
Hôtel de Ville (Paris city hall)
Festival of Peace and
Jacobin occupation of
Revolution of 1830 and
royal family arrival at
Houdon, Jean-Antoine
Howe, Richard
Howe, William
Huger, Benjamin
Huger, Francis
Hundred Years’ War
Indépendants
Independence Hall (Phila.)
Indians, Lafayette relations with
Indochina
Iroquois
Italy
revolutionaries
Jackson, Andrew
Jacobins
American plot by
call to arms
counterrevolutions against
Lafayette flight from France and
liberalization measures
military infiltration by
mob violence against
Morris’s protests to
political infiltration by
power in Paris
September Massacres and
Terror and
Jamaica
Jay, John
British peace negotiations and
in Spain
Treaty of Paris signing
Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth
Jefferson, Patsy
Jefferson, Polly
Jefferson, Thomas
British plot against
death of
Declaration of Independence and
Declaration of the Rights of Man and
departure from Paris by
Fayettistes and
in France