Marquis de Lafayette
ust as many others including Baron von Stueben and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette
left his homeland to aid the American cause for independence. Lafayette left France at age nineteen to help the United States by offering his services without
pay to General Washington.
- Feyette County, WV gets its name from him
---Jon
- Lafayette should be rewarded and noticed. With out his help, America might not have won the war.
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- At home in France, he cooperated closely with Benjamin Franklin and later with Thomas Jefferson, in behalf of American interests.
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- He was a great war heroe in America and also Frace.
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- The idea of first combining the two armies and the two fleets and then attacking Cornwallis in Virginia was the brainstorm of the Marquis de Lafayette.
---Scott Barrett
- His full name is Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
---Phil Consolo
- Married at the age of sixteen
---Anonymous
- The Marquis was also prone to seasicknesses and a love of horses.
---Anonymous
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