1To James Madison from James Monroe, 13 February 1818 (Madison Papers)
: Adams Papers [microfilm ed.], reel 6). Francisco de Miranda’s unsuccessful expedition to liberate Venezuela in 1806 was launched from the United States with the help of sympathetic Americans, among them Thornton. Miranda had claimed that he acted with the silent consent of the Jefferson administration, an......de Miranda (1750–1816) was a Venezuelan-born soldier who fought in the French...
2To James Madison from Richard Rush, 6 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
: Richard Rush Papers), the cover sheet of which he docketed “General Miranda / Notes of his conversation in 1805.” The document recorded Francisco de Miranda’s “remarkable” comments on a variety of topics, including his “detestation” of Napoleon, whom he considered a pretentious, overrated general advised by “
3From John Adams to James Lloyd, 5 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
...But I cannot relieve you yet. You must read a little more curious history. There is extant a volume in print. Boston 1810. published by Edward Oliver. N. 70. state street, “The History of Don Francisco de Miranda’s Attempt to effect a Revolution in South America.
4From John Adams to James Lloyd, 26 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
.... I pray you to be pleased to deliver it, into the hands of His Excellency the President; and as eventually some answer may be practicable in so interested a business, General Francis de Miranda, our compatriot and the Principal Agent of all Spanish America in Union, a Person extremely well known, and in particular to the honourable Mr King, whose Intervention is, as to both Parties...
5From John Adams to James Lloyd, 9 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
Francisco de Miranda
6William Shaler to James Monroe, 14 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
...a 29 Dec. 1812 letter from Cogswell to Gutiérrez and Augustus W. Magee detailing at least some of Cogswell’s grounds for suspicion of Toledo’s motives. When reports of the republican leader Francisco de Miranda’s capitulation to royalist forces in Venezuela arrived in Baltimore, Cogswell wrote, the “Patriots” of that city “were thunder struck at the news,” but Toledo “did not appear to be...
7Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Francisco de Miranda’s
8To James Madison from John Graham, [ca. 14 December] 1812 (Madison Papers)
...June 1812 and reported to Monroe in a 16 Nov. 1812 letter that the country was in a “deplorable state,” its cities and agriculture destroyed by severe earthquakes while Francisco de Miranda’s “republicans” fought unsuccessfully against royalist forces. Scott also reported widespread anti-American sentiment in Venezuela. Domingo Monteverde, the royalist general, seized some of the five U.S...
9From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
...at Île de France and Calcutta, respectively, but never actually held either position. Thereafter he moved to New York, where he engaged in trade with Haiti as well as participating in the schemes of Samuel Ogden and Francisco de Miranda against Venezuela in 1806 (
10To the Boston Patriot, 6 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
...and especially to find that Mr. Jay without knowing that he should be supported by me, had the virtue and fortitude to resist the importunities of Dr. Franklin, and the Comte de Vergennes, as well as the Comte de Miranda.