Our First Alliance

Our First Alliance

Jean Jules Jusserand, french author and diplomat (1855-1932)


This ebook presents «Our First Alliance», from Jean Jules Jusserand. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Our First Alliance

- French Faith In America

- All France Behind America Then

- An Extraordinary Task

- An Alliance Which Forbade Conquest

- The Magic Words To Conjure With

- A Fight Not For Recompense, But For Liberty

- The Ideal Leader Rochambeau

- A Happy Marriage With Annals Brief

- A Trap That Was Avoided

- The French Fleet At Newport

- A Game Of Naval Chess

- Preparing To Give The Enemy Hot Shot

- Rochambeau's Warm Heart And Strict Discipline

- Waiting For The Second Division

- Dark Days For The Patriot Cause

- A Serious Situation In The South

- Latin Was The Language Of Communication

- The Frenchmen's Impression Of Washington

- To Virginia's Rescue

- Washington Warns Of Spies

- The Patient Continental Soldiers

- France Fought For An Idea

- Clinton's Fatal Error

- Philadelphia's Welcome

- America's Debt To De Grasse

- Another French Fleet In The Chesapeake

- The Surrender

- Yorktown's Pitiful Aspect

- A Generous Victor

- Cornwallis's Tribute To The French

- The Beginning Of A New Political Era

- Rochambeau Visits Jefferson

- The French Army Returns To Providence

- All France Honors Rochambeau On His Return