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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
King Louis XVI was King of France from 1774 (just before the start of the American Revolution) until 1793, when he was beheaded during the French Revolution. Though his anti-British sentiment led him to be staunch supporter of the American forces, Louis was himself a monarch who taxed his subjects heavily—the very thing the Americans claimed to fight against. Indeed, when the increasingly high taxes needed to pay for the Patriots’ war led his subjects to revolt, Louis would express great regret at having backed the U.S.
King Louis XVI Quotes in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The Lafayette in the Somewhat United States quotes below are all either spoken by King Louis XVI or refer to King Louis XVI . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Because these words convinced Louis XVI to open his heart and, more important, his wallet to the patriots, Vergennes’s memo arguably had as much practical effect on the establishment of American independence as the Declaration of Independence itself. Jefferson’s pretty phrases were incomplete without the punctuation of French gunpowder.
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King Louis XVI Quotes in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The Lafayette in the Somewhat United States quotes below are all either spoken by King Louis XVI or refer to King Louis XVI . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Because these words convinced Louis XVI to open his heart and, more important, his wallet to the patriots, Vergennes’s memo arguably had as much practical effect on the establishment of American independence as the Declaration of Independence itself. Jefferson’s pretty phrases were incomplete without the punctuation of French gunpowder.
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