Marquis De Lafayette
Since we are in the process of celebrating our independence I thought that a young Frenchman should be recognized for his assistance in our fight…. One of the ‘heroes’ of the American Revolution…..a French noble that came to fight on the side of the Colonials….. At a dinner on August 8, 1775, Lafayette heard the Duke of Gloucester speak with sympathy of the ongoing struggle in the colonies. He made clandestine arrangements with Silas Deane, a liaison between France and the colonies, to travel to America and join the revolutionary cause. He landed near Charleston, South Carolina, June 13, 1777, then travelled to Philadelphia, where he was commissioned a Major General on July 31. This reflected his wealth and noble…
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