Footnote 5: The condensed form of the name, when used apart from the title, is preferable to the open, for, though he employed the conventional style, De La Fayette, up to the time of the French Revolution, he then abandoned it, and always afterward wrote it as one word, Lafayette, which is now the family name.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 6: Copyright. 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 7: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 8: Copyright, 1864, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 9: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 10: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 11: It is said that a prominent man of Liverpool declared that "only a parcel of charlatans would ever have issued such a set of conditions; that it had been proved to be impossible to make a locomotive go ten miles per hour." He added that, "if it ever was done, he would eat a stewed engine-wheel for breakfast."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 12: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 13: Reprinted, by permission, from the Magazine of American History.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 14: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]