Hello There, Guest! (LoginRegister)

Post Reply 
It's a Festivus Miracle
Author Message
JSA Offline
1st String
*

Posts: 1,895
Joined: Nov 2005
Reputation: 16
I Root For:
Location:
Post: #21
RE: It's a Festivus Miracle
(12-10-2017 04:02 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  
(12-09-2017 03:23 PM)JSA Wrote:  Sam Houston met Lafayette during Lafayette's visit the US in 1823 and received a hair locket from him. Lafayette warned Houston that the European crowns were hoping for the collapse of democracy in the US.

Although the "Sam Houston Project" mentions this locket and the 1823 date, Lafayette's famous return visit to America actually occurred in 1824-5. The congressional invitation was passed in January 1824. Houston was a U.S. Rep. from Tennessee at that time. Perhaps he met Lafayette in Washington (December 1824) or in Nashville (hosted by Houston's mentor Andrew Jackson) in May 1825.

There is no mention of the meeting in this 1854 biography of Lafayette or the two-volume journal of the trip, published in 1829. (Links to Vol. 1 / Vol. 2)

Channel 8 reruns the Sam Houston documentary based on the Sam Houston Project. A professor discusses the visit, but I can't find a video. Actually, I had thought Lafayette's visit was in 1826 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Declaration.

The documentary also mentions that he had a chance meeting with Alexis de Tocqueville on a riverboat trip. There's speculation on whether he ever visited with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
12-10-2017 11:51 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
I45owl Offline
Hall of Famer
*

Posts: 18,374
Joined: Jun 2005
Reputation: 184
I Root For: Rice Owls
Location: Dallas, TX

New Orleans Bowl
Post: #22
RE: It's a Festivus Miracle
(12-08-2017 10:30 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  
(12-08-2017 12:46 PM)I45owl Wrote:  TDIL that Jean Lafitte was not the same person as Lafayette. I never really thought much about the two at the same time, but I thought it was just an "alternate" pronunciation... I heard about Lafitte when I was pretty young, and Lafayette much later in adulthood, but somehow conflated the two and thought Lafayette's main career was as a ship captain. 05-nono

Ack!
(As a New Orleanian and history buff, I learned about both the Marquis de Lafayette and the buccaneer Jean Lafitte as a youngster. Such completely different characters! Lafayette was a national hero with places named after him all over the U.S., while Lafitte was very much a regional hero, and to a large extent a creature of legend. Interestingly, an American flag flies perpetually over Lafayette's grave in Paris.)

Sadly, my interest in Lafitte was probably stoked by one or two trips to Lafitte's restaurant in Downtown Denver as a child. To my recollection, that was regarded as the best restaurant in the city at that time...

[Image: lafittes-denver-blob.jpg?w=604]
12-11-2017 05:03 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 




User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)


Copyright © 2002-2024 Collegiate Sports Nation Bulletin Board System (CSNbbs), All Rights Reserved.
CSNbbs is an independent fan site and is in no way affiliated to the NCAA or any of the schools and conferences it represents.
This site monetizes links. FTC Disclosure.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.