1From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Ternant, 21 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Knowing it to be the intention of Congress to employ no more foreigners except such as come under special engagements or whose recommendations & former Services speak so powerfully as scarce to leave a choice I coud not undertake to give Mr T—— any assurance of a permanent appointment much less the promise of Rank without authority of Congress. Nor could I stand justified upon any principle...
2From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Ternant, 26 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was favoured with your letter (without date) yesterday. As you seem to have take it for granted that your Services are rejected, and intimate an inconsistency in my not discouraging from the beginning; the application made in your behalf—it is incumbent upon me to assure you, that I have not given up the idea of your becoming one of the subinspectors, on the terms expressed in my last letter...
3From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Ternant, 2 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter of the 29th of August, which hurry of business has prevented my answering before. You express an opinion that rank is essential to a proper and effectual discharge of the duties of your station from the respect and authority it commands, which you seem to think are unattainable without it—The abuses formerly existing from a lavish distribution of rank in the departments...
4From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Ternant, 8 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letter of the 30th of May, and sincerely felicitate you, on the prospect, of your being speedily exchanged. Your desire of entering into activity of service immediately upon your release from captivity, is truly laudable, & like your former conduct merits approbation. From the opinion I entertain of your abilities & zeal for the cause of America, I am persuaded...
5From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Ternant, 28 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letter of the 20th with the several papers enclosed—I have attentively perused the whole; but the Resolution of the 26th of March, by which Genl Armand obtained his promotion, not having been forwarded to me, I am unable to judge of the Terms of its Expression, or the propriety of your reasoning thereon; nor can I say how for your Observations on the Intention or...
6From George Washington to Ternant, 2 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Sir, Mount Vernon October 2nd 1791. The details with which you have been pleased to favor me (under date of 24th ult.) of the unfortunate insurrection of the negroes in Hispaniola, came duly to hand; and I pray you to accept my best thanks for the trouble you have taken to give them. What the final issue of this affair may be is difficult at this distance, and with the imperfect...
7From George Washington to Ternant, 22 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia, Decr 22nd 1791. I accept, with great pleasure, the new and elegant print of the King of the French, which you have been so obliging as to send to me this morning as a mark of your attachment to my person. You will believe me, Sir, when I assure you, that I have a grateful and lively sense of the personal respect and friendship expressed in your favor which...
8From George Washington to Ternant, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The first intimation, which I received of your mission to the United States, in the capacity you lately fill[e]d, gave me pleasure. I anticipated, on your part, a conduct, which, while it was calculated to promote the objects of your duty, would, in the manner, be pleasing to the Government and Citizens of this Country. My anticipations have not been disappointed. Uniformly attentive to the...