1Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Francisco de Miranda’s
2Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Francisco de MirandaThe History of Don Francisco de Miranda’s attempt to effect a Revolution in South America, in a series of letters
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
had implicitly sanctioned Francisco de Miranda’s expedition, and to foster the belief, rumored to have originated with Jacob Wagner, that Jefferson had ordered the prosecution. In Sanford’s estimate, these circumstances rendered Smith’s acquittal a foregone conclusion. Postponing Samuel Ogden’s...
4To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
...of the ship Leander,” had arrived in New York from Grenada two days earlier. Lewis had been indicted by the New York grand jury, along with Samuel G. Ogden, William Stephens Smith, William Armstrong, and Francisco de Miranda, in April 1806 (
5From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Shelby, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A few months earlier the Secretary of State had learned that France was contemplating an expedition under Francisco de Miranda to seize New Orleans and liberate the Spanish colonies south of it (
6From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
), the person whom TJ had in mind could not have been Smith’s traveling companion on his European tour, Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan patriot, for Miranda parted with Smith at Vienna on 26 Oct. 1785, went on alone to Constantinople, and from there arrived at Rome on the very day that TJ wrote the present letter (W....
7To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
...Mexico and Central and South America. Hamilton and Henry Knox may have passed on information obtained from Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastian Francisco de Miranda, with whom they had earlier associated. In 1784 Miranda consulted the two about a filibustering expedition against the Spanish in South America and left a cipher with Knox for secure future communications, but the secretary of war...
8Notes on Conversations with William Stephens Smith and George Washington, 20 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
, 212–25). When Smith left Paris early in November 1792 the French government was planning to dispatch an expedition to liberate South America under the leadership of Francisco de Miranda, a Venezuelan revolutionary leader who had recently become a general in the French army, but it abandoned this plan shortly thereafter (William S. Robertson,