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	The Marquis de Lafayette
		Lafayette was a member of Washington's staff and during the Battle of the Brandywine, Lafayette participated in the closing part of the battle when he was wounded.
		Lafayette found that the conspiracy to displace Washington was virtually ended and with defeat for the conspirators.
		When Lafayette arrived upon the scene he found the Americans were retreating to higher ground, then Lafayette though fatigued from his long trip to Boston, asked Sullivan to command the rear-guard and thus he brought out safely more than a thousand men and supplies and united the forces with Sullivan's main army.
	www.ushistory.org /valleyforge/served/lafayette.html (3260 words)

	Gilbert Lafayette
		French aristocrat Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, fought with American colonists against the British and, as a leader of the liberal aristocrats and outspoken advocate of religious toleration, was a powerful influence in the first few years of the French Revolution.
		There is no question that Lafayette was a freemason, for the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania received him with distinguished honours during his last visit to the USA, and the Grand Lodge of Tennessee made him an honorary member when Andrew Jackson, seventh USA president (1829-1836), introduced him to that Grand Lodge in 1825.
		Lafayette’s name is included in a list of 100 "Les Chers Freres Visiteurs" attached to the programme, establishing conclusively that he was a freemason before he arrived in America.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/lafayette_g/lafayette_g.html (311 words)

	Memoirs of General Lafayette
		Invited by the general to establish himself in his house, he looked upon it from that moment as his own: with this perfect ease and simplicity was formed the tie that united two friends, whose confidence and attachments were to be cemented by the strongest interests of humanity.
		General Knox, who had changed the profession of bookseller to that of artillery officer, was there also, and had himself formed other officers, and created an artillery.
		General Washington, had he followed the advice of the people, would have enclosed his army in a city, and thus have intrusted to one hazard the fate of America; but, while refusing to commit such an act of folly, he was obliged to make some sacrifice, and gratify the nation by a battle.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /revolutionary-war/patriots/lafayette-american-revolution.htm (7338 words)

	Lafayette Web Page
		Lafayette was a junior officer in the French army when in 1777, he defied his family and the orders of the King Louis XVI, and sailed to the American colonies.
		Charles Wilson Peale's oil-on-canvas portrait of Lafayette (to the left, wearing an American major general's uniform) was commissioned by George Washington, and was hung at Mount Vernon, side-by-side with C.W. Peale's 1772 portrait of Washington.
		Château-musée Lafayette is at Chavaniac in Haute-Loire of the Auvergne, France.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/lafy-4.htm (1503 words)

	Marquis de Lafayette \| Soldier & Statesman
		Lafayette, who came from a long line of solders, studied at the Military Academy in Versailles and became a captain in the French cavalry at age 16.
		Lafayette joined the ranks as a major general, assigned to the staff of George Washington.
		Lafayette was denounced as a traitor and fled the country.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/95sep/lafayette.html (686 words)

	On Bunker Hill, a boost in Lafayette profile - The Boston Globe
		Among the treasures on display at the new Battle of Bunker Hill Museum in Charlestown is the trowel used by Revolutionary War hero General Lafayette to lay the cornerstone for the Bunker Hill Monument at groundbreaking ceremonies in 1825.
		The Boston lawyer is so unabashedly obsessed with Lafayette that he has devoted several years of his free time to translating an out-of-print book that he says captures the spirit of the foreign aristocrat.
		According to the book, Hoffman said, Lafayette received star treatment throughout his 13-month odyssey to this country, where he visited six presidents and was welcomed in an "adoring frenzy" by appreciative Americans who were still basking in the glory of their new republic.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2007/06/10/on_bunker_hill_a_boost_in_lafayette_profile (882 words)

	Biography of LaFayette
		Lafayette was born at the Château de Chavaniac, near Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, in the remote, volcanic-mountainous, Province of Auvergne, also known as the "Appalachia of France." He belonged to the cadet branch of the La Fayette family.
		The General, accompanied by a body of gentlemen, arrived, and went on board the steam boat, which was previously cleared by order of the Police, who would not allow him to embark whilst any body of the town was on board.
		It was the intention of the General and his companions to repair to Holland, as that was a neutral country, and in the neighborhood of their own.
	genealogytrails.com /main/lafayette.html (6119 words)

	Lafayette
		Lafayette was granted a commission in the "Army of the United States".
		Lafayette proved to be a good officer and a wise adviser, but more important was his popularity with his own countrymen.
		Lafayette died on May 20th 1834 at the age of 78 and was buried next to his wife in the Le Jardin de Picpus Cemetery in Paris.
	www.fhsclassmates.com /lafayette.htm (2541 words)

	Lafayette's Virginia Campaign (1781)
		Lafayette's Virginia Campaign was a prelude to, and at the end, part of the Yorktown Campaign of 1781.
		Lafayette moved to Bottom's Bridge (16 miles from Richmond), across the Chickahominy River to a position closer to Wiliamsburg, Fredericksburg and to the vicinity of Jamestown, where Phillips was camped.
		Lafayette's general scheme was to keep himself between Cornwallis' much larger force and a line of communications to the north, from which direction Wayne's forces would eventually arrive.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/laf_va.htm (6245 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lafayette passed the night of the 23d of June, at Dover, N.H. On the evening of that day a Committee of the citizens of South Berwick, waited on him, and invited him to breakfast with them, the next morning, on his way to Portland, which invitation he accepted.
		The General upon being informed that there was a lady in this village whom he had known in his first visit to America politely said he remembered her very well, and requested to see her.
		Cushing had been apprised that the General was to visit her she sent to my mother telling her of the great strait she was in, in having no cake to offer the General.
	www.obhs.net /Lafayette.html (1206 words)

	General Lafayette
		They traveled by land to Philadelphia, where Lafayette immediately addressed a letter to Congress, asking leave to serve as a volunteer in the Continental army without pay.
		General Howe sent General Grant to make a secret night march to gain the rear of the marquis (May 20), and the next morning Howe marched with about 6,000 men, commanded by Clinton and Knyphausen, to capture the young Frenchman and send him to England.
		He refused with disdain; and when the vote for making Bonaparte first consul for life was taken, Lafayette voted no, and told the ambitious general so in a letter, which ended their intercourse.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /revolutionary-war/general/general-lafayette.htm (1458 words)

	President's Park (White House) - Explore the Northern Trail (U.S. National Park Service)
		Lafayette was a wealthy nineteen-year-old nobleman when he sailed his own vessel, la Victoire, to America in 1777.
		Lafayette was the first foreign dignitary to address Congress in 1824, and on his death in 1834, both the House and Senate draped their chambers in fl.
		The statue, erected on the northwest corner of Lafayette Park in 1910, shows von Steuben wearing the uniform of a major general of the Continental army, heavily cloaked against the rigors of the winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
	www.nps.gov /whho/planyourvisit/explore-the-northern-trail.htm (2876 words)

	General Lafayette letters for the years 1777 thru 1824 \| Familytales
		General Lafayette letter to father in law the Duke D'Ayen...I have found a peculiar opportunity of distinguishing myself, and of learning a soldiers trade: I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America.
		General Lafayette letter to wife...I shall now speak to you, my love, about the country and its inhabitants, who are as agreeable as my enthusiasm had led me to imagine.
		General Lafayette letter to General Washington...I have received a letter from the board and a resolve of congress, by which you are directed to recall me and the Baron de Kalb...
	www.familytales.org /results.php?tla=laf (2209 words)

	Lafayette in Buffalo
		Lafayette and his American friends had hoped he could return once again to the United States after a visit in 1784, but this proved impossible for many years.
		The next morning at six o'clock, Lafayette's party departed for Black Rock, "a small though pretty port, which rivals, in activity of business, the harbor at Buffalo." General Porter feted the visitors at breakfast in his residence located in the vicinity of Niagara and Breckenridge Streets.
		After the meal, Lafayette was presented to the people of Black Rock, and at ten o'clock, he boarded the Seneca Chief, a canal packet which later in the year led the flotilla from Buffalo to New York heralding the completion of the Erie Canal.
	www.buffaloah.com /h/lafay/index.html (1099 words)

	The American Friends of Lafayette
		On May 20, a surprised Lafayette saw that he and his entire detachment were completely surrounded by the five generals and their awesome forces poised for a final strike.
		General Von Steuben had masterfully trained the troops at Valley Forge, and this was the first test of his training skills.
		Lafayette saw how Washington's fighting force was dwindling because of starvation, desertions, disease, death from freezing, and a recalcitrant Congress guilty of gross mismanagement.
	friendsoflafayette.org /data/barrenhill.html (858 words)

	The Nation's Guest - Lafayette
		It was understood that General Lafayette was to pass through Hackensack on his way to Paterson, that one special object of his visit here was to see the tomb of General Poor, which you will find in the southwest corner of the old church yard.
		The General was to enter the village on the Hoboken road, at the southern end of the town, where "Earle's Corner" used to be, and to take breakfast at one of the hotels near at hand.
		Passing on to the hotel, the address was made; the breakfast was partaken of, and, in an hour or two, the General left the little village as rapidly as he entered it, driving under the upper arch, and being saluted by the cannon, which had been transferred thither for that purpose.
	www.bergencountyhistory.org /Pages/lafayette.html (2977 words)

	Lafayette College Marquis de Lafayette 250th Birthday
		When the Easton delegation was presented to General Lafayette he was introduced to James Madison Porter [a prime mover in the founding of Lafayette College and the first president of its Board of Trustees].
		Porter had this delightful experience with General Lafayette, he took his trip to the Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont, where the idea of founding a college at Easton first presented itself to his mind.
		The records are silent as to whose happy thought it was to name the college “La Fayette.” But the suggestion must have received an enthusiastic response from the citizens, two hundred of whom had so recently travelled to Philadelphia to pay homage to the grand old soldier and grasp his hand.
	www.lafayette.edu /250/name.html (920 words)

	Who is General Lafayette?
		General Lafayette was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States for its contributions in the American revolution of 1777.
		General Lafayette was born in the Auvergne region into a prestigious and powerful family.
		After the end of the war, General Lafayette was made a Brigadier General in Paris, and eventually took an active role in the French Revolution.
	www.wisegeek.com /who-is-general-lafayette.htm (397 words)

	George Washington's Mount Vernon - Washington & Lafayette
		Lafayette is presented to George Washington at a dinner party in Philadelphia.
		Lafayette, who was not supposed be in combat, fought on the front lines and was shot in the leg.
		It was to be Lafayetteâs last meeting with Washington before the latterâs death in December 1799.
	www.mountvernon.org /visit/plan/index.cfm/pid/349 (358 words)

	Lafayette Square
		Lafayette Square is a seven-acre public park located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW.
		Lafayette Park has been used as a race track, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations.
		The Hay-Adams Hotel, located in Lafayette Square Park, is a Historic Hotels of America member, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/wash/dc30.htm (520 words)

	Lafayette in America translated by Alan R. Hoffman
		Auguste Levasseur's Lafayette in America is a journal of General Lafayette's 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of all 24 United States.
		In this book, Lafayette's private secretary describes how the now 67-year-old hero of the American Revolution and apostle of liberty in Europe was welcomed in an adoring frenzy by the American people.
		Lafayette was the sole surviving major general of the Continental Army.
	lafayetteinamerica.com (320 words)

	Marquis de Lafayette
		The French general the Marquis de Lafayette, called the hero of two worlds, was prominent in both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
		Despised by the court as a renegade aristocrat whose bourgeois army was unable to protect the royal family, he was also hated by the populace for trying to suppress disorder, especially after he fired on a crowd in Paris in July 1791.
		In 1792, as an army commander, Lafayette made a futile attempt to save the monarchy and then deserted to the Austrians, who promptly imprisoned him as a dangerous revolutionary.
	www.irqpa.org /lphs/1948/4th/LAFAYETT.HTM (556 words)

	Lafayette McLaws - A Soldier's General - Civil war letters, biography, and McLaws division history.
		Lafayette McLaws - A Soldier's General - Civil war letters, biography, and McLaws division history.
		Lafayette McLaws has receded into history due in large part to his poor penmanship.
		A biography is in the research stage with the goal of using new primary research to tell the story.
	asoldiersgeneral.com (378 words)

	LaFayette's Visit
		In 1825 Lafayette entered Alabama from Georgia, traveled through Creek Indian territory along the Federal Road to Montgomery, to the state capital in Cahaba, and down the Alabama River to Mobile.
		The Lafayette Committee spent $17,000 to finance the celebration throughout the state, which was more than the total state treasury.
		The General visited the wounded man, and took much interest in his welfare; he was told that the gentleman had many friends who would care for him.
	www.mindspring.com /~mchs/herald/woodward.htm (1968 words)

	James Lafayette
		General Lafayette during 1781, when the young general was commanding forces pitted against General Cornwallis, to whose victory over General Gates in South Carolina many American slaves, who had joined the British on their promise of freedom, had contributed.
		In 1786, Armistead, who by now expressed his continuing admiration for the marquis by calling himself James Armistead Lafayette, was rewarded for his services to the Revolution by being emancipated at the expense of the General Assembly of Virginia.
		And in 1824, during Lafayette's visit to Virginia, Armistead's now aging features were to share once more the general's glory.
	www.irqpa.org /lphs/1948/4th/JAMES.HTM (370 words)

	General Lafayette
		But since that time, The General Lafayette has brought a little entertainment to the table in the form of musicians performing on weekends and most nights during the week.
		Typically the Lafayette keeps 8 different types of beers on tap ranging from ales, to bitters, to lagers, to stouts (the dark stuff that looks like you could float a quarter on the head) and even an occasional fruit based beer.
		All in all the General Lafayette is a great place to experience some decent brews, good music and good times whenever you're in the Lafayette Hills area, and even when you're not in the neighborhood.
	www.phillytown.com /general_lafayette.htm (425 words)

	Liberty's Kids . Archive . James Armistead Lafayette
		He spied on the British army for the Americans and reported his findings to General Lafayette.
		When the British General Cornwallis asked him to spy on the Americans, he became a double agent, giving Cornwallis misinformation from Washington.
		The information he sent to Lafayette resulted in the French fleet blocking the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.
	www.libertyskids.com /arch_who_jlafayette.html (146 words)

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