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 “
3To 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...
4To James Madison from George W. Erving, 29 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
In September 1810 the Venezuelan rebel Francisco de Miranda sought permission to return to his native land on board a Royal Navy vessel in the company of the delegates who had been dispatched to London earlier in the year by the ruling junta in Caracas. Lord Wellesley would...
5To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 31 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
...Agosto de 1807. hìze á este Gobíerno por me dio de V.S. una solemne protesta de todos los daños y perjuicios que han resultado y que pueden resultar á mì Rey y sus Vasallos, de la expedìcion de Miranda reclamando la satisfaccíon debída à un ínsulto que se hízo a su Soberania en estos Estados, pues se habia hecho presente a V.S. por el Marques de Casa Yrujo, y el General Turreau, que el punto...
6To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 7 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
en busca de la Expedición de Miranda y obligarla á los que la componian á regresar
7To 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 (
8To James Madison from Nathan Sanford, 21 August 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
in Francisco de Miranda’s expedition against Spanish forces in Venezuela, should be brought to trial in New York.
9To 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...
10To James Madison from George W. Erving, 25 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...why Carlos Martinez de Yrujo had been asked to leave the United States, the king had decided to demand one, along with an explanation of the U.S. government’s response to Francisco de Miranda’s expedition. It strained credulity to suppose, Cevallos wrote, that American officials could not have stopped the expedition before or even after it left New York; furthermore, Spain would have been...