Timeline for Were any U.S. founding fathers present at the storming of the Bastille?
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| Mar 4 at 10:18 | comment | added | Roger V. | Related: How was the U.S. divided regarding the French Revolution around 1789? | |
| Mar 4 at 10:16 | comment | added | Roger V. | @Rekesoft They may have been friends with Lafayette - this is an understatement. E.g., Siege of Yorktown depicts George Washington surrounded by his generals: général Rochambeau, marquis de La Fayette, marquis de Saint Simon, duc de Lausun, Comte de Ménonville - the latter, according to the French Wiki actually commanded the siege. More seriously, please check this thread | |
| Feb 27 at 9:11 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @RogerV. They were all devoted followers of the (very anti-monarchic) french philosophers of the time. They may have been friends with Lafayette, but they didn't cry a tear for the french king. | |
| Feb 26 at 20:46 | vote | accept | Geremia | ||
| Feb 26 at 20:43 | history | edited | Geremia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25 at 12:05 | comment | added | WS2 | @RogerV. Quite so. Had it not been for Louis XVI's brutal and reactionary royal army, there would never have been any founding of the United States of America. By a further irony Britain had, by that time, had a sovereign representative parliament for nearly a century. | |
| Feb 25 at 7:25 | comment | added | Roger V. | Given the aid that Louis XVI provided during the American war for independence, I think the founding fathers would have had somewhat ambiguous feelings. | |
| Feb 25 at 2:13 | answer | added | njuffa | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 24 at 14:24 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | Paine (not Payne) absolutely cheered it on... from the other side of the Atlantic. | |
| Feb 24 at 12:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 24 at 6:06 | answer | added | OldPadawan | timeline score: 29 | |
| Feb 24 at 4:22 | comment | added | Brian Z | A quick web search shows that Paine got to France in 1791 while the Bastille was back in 1789. Please edit question with preliminary research. | |
| Feb 24 at 4:05 | history | asked | Geremia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
