After being named inspector of U.S. artillery in 1800, Toussard became commander of the Second Artillery Regiment in January 1801.
Incredibly, when West Point was finished on 1802, President Thomas Jefferson passed over Toussard for its first superintendent because he was French.
Toussard resigned his commission in March 1802, and returned to France and rejoining the French Army as a battalion commander in GeneralVictor Leclerc's failed attempt to conquer Haiti.
He served as French consul in the United States from 1805-1816.
In 1816, he returned to France where he died in Paris 10 April 1817.
--Brock-Perry
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