1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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 “