In 1793, French Consul Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit wanted to capture Florida from Spain. He commissioned William Tate as a French Colonel to raise and lead a force of Americans.[1] Tate was instructed to recruit from outside the United States,[2] but he recruited from the region of the Carolinas, especially rural settlers.[3] In February 1794, Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet, arrived in Philadelphia as the new French ambassador, and rescinded Tate's commission.[4]
South Carolina threatened to arrest Tate for treason, and he fled to France in 1795,[3] where he was given command of the Légion Noire during the 1797 invasion of Britain. The 1,200 to 1,400-strong Légion Noire landed at Carregwastad Point, near the Welsh port of Fishguard, on February 22 but surrendered three days later at the Battle of Fishguard. After brief imprisonment, Tate was returned to France in a prisoner exchange in 1798, along with most of his invasion force. This was the last invasion of the British mainland by foreign forces.
Many historians, following E. H. Stuart Jones, the author of The Last Invasion of Britain (1950), have suggested that William Tate was about 70 years old in 1797; he was in fact 44.[6]
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^Alderson, Robert J (2008). This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. p. 130. ISBN978-1570037450.
^Tozzi, Christopher (2011). "Between Two Republics: American Military Volunteers in Revolutionary France". Journal of the Western Society for French History. 39. Michigan Publishing. ISSN 2573-5012. Retrieved 20 Nov 2019.
^ abTozzi, Christopher J (2016). Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. pp. 109–110. ISBN9780813938349.
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