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    "Were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Jesus Mythicists?". 21 November 2019. Volney, Comte Constantin François de Chasseboeuf de (1787). Voyage...
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    Congress appointed Jefferson U.S. minister to France, where he served from 1785 to 1789. President Washington then appointed Jefferson the nation's first...
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    François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, SMOM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer and nobleman. He is...
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    Army commanded by Washington, the French Army commanded by General Comte de Rochambeau, and the French Navy commanded by Admiral de Grasse. On August...
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    George Washington Parke Custis at Arlington House. He visited Mount Vernon, and he met Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. In 1802, Georges Washington de Lafayette...
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    troops led by General George Washington with support from the Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval...
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    efforts to get Washington to accept the presidency, as he foresaw himself receiving a powerful position in the administration. The comte de Rochambeau urged...
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    1930 he married Genevieve Ryan (née Willinger), widow of Washington financier Thomas Jefferson Ryan. His two children were from the first marriage. He...
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    years before. During that period, an army under the comte de Rochambeau had been sent to assist Washington, but it had yet to do anything of significance and...
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    Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), was...
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    Americans. He wrote many letters, especially to Jefferson, and exchanged gifts as he had once done with Washington. In 1814, the coalition that opposed Napoleon...
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    grounds and the Treasury Building and grounds. In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through the park and separated what would...
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    edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/france/louis2.htm Letter from George Washington Letter from Thomas Jefferson at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 March 2006) https://web...
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    Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers...
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    Monsieur de Lur-Saluces." Jefferson ordered 250 bottles of the 1784 vintage for himself, and additional bottles for George Washington. However, at that time...
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    Commons Place de la Bastille Archived 7 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine – official French website (in English) Thomas Jefferson's letter to John...
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    Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Washington. Most of the Founding Fathers were of English ancestry...
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    James Madison (category Jefferson administration cabinet members)
    predecessors, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, put together". When Madison left office in 1817 at age 65, he retired to Montpelier. As with both Washington and...
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    Philip Jaisohn at the Korean Consulate on Sheridan Circle Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial Saint Jerome at the Croatian Embassy, 24th Street and...
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    experience. Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain was France's war minister from 1775 to 1777. Alexandre Marie Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey was France's...
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    over Jefferson, but Hamilton, who had a strong dislike of Burr, threw his political weight behind Jefferson. During the election, neither Jefferson nor...
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    everywhere. In 1807, Jacques Le Ray de Chaumont sent Jefferson a copy of Corinne, and also conveyed to Staël Jefferson’s first letter addressed to her. This...
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    with George Washington in Philadelphia. He also met General Henry Knox, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. He also visited...
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    bones entered Peale into a long-standing debate between Thomas Jefferson and Comte de Buffon. Buffon argued that Europe was superior to the Americas biologically...
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    Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau is a bronze statue honoring Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a French nobleman and general...
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    Pennsylvania's historical significance in the nation's founding. Both Jefferson and Washington considered Pennsylvania Avenue an important feature of the new...
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    God" to his oath. The only contemporaneous account of Washington's oath is from French consul Comte de Moustier who reported the constitutional oath with...
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    philosopher Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, General Victor Collot, scholar Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, diplomat Victor Marie...
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    general, the Comte de Rochambeau was instructed to tell Washington that de Grasse might be able to assist, without making any commitment. (Washington learned...
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    Oval Office (category Georgian Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.)
    White House. He and his successor, President Thomas Jefferson, used Hoban's oval rooms as Washington had used his bow window salon, standing before the...
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