He failed to achieve what he wanted ... to break America's attachment to the Washingtonian principle of neutrality and nonintervention.
He was a "champion of liberty," but declined to be dragged into the slavery controversy.
During his visit to the USA there was a type of trousers named after him, a hat, a beard. And even oysters.
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns