"Delivered at the inauguration of the monument erected in Newport, R.I., to commemorate the landing in 1780 on the cliffs of Newport, of the French troops which came to help the American colonists to obtain their independa[!]nce. Newport, R. I., July 14th, 1928."

On cover: The help of the French nation during the American Revolution, 1780. Purchase of the Island of Manhattan, foundation of New York--1624. Prejudice of historians.

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