Show ve aa 1112 0 AMERICAS DEBT TO LAFAYETTE washington paid tribute to great services rendered fie he began W ar leans bere ere still plo n ers nna ana shooters rho country was m as lull of mm mon who ho had seen service in war against the french and indium washington bad had been all hie ida life a soldier it ie is rot dot surprising that american officers mt felt quite able to handle the military situation tuat loo without assistance from the host of applicants for comal anions from rom abroad therefore when wash ington heard that a young frenchman danied Lafa lafayette yetto had left ills wife nife ami and child and crossed the occran to sene serie ac the american cause as n a n volunteer or pay he muttered I 1 one more but dut lafayette pleaded olie ghe me a chance I 1 do not mant ant to ae nn an honorary soldier he lie went to calip and liere began a friendship ran trough so many years ilke nn an idyl la in its as Il visited wa washington at mt fernon vernon with a letter from lafayette VA lafayette re aya says washington spoke me ot IL de lafayette alth emot on he On insiders ns idera him as his child bater bayette fayette sent to washington tho the key ley to w the destroyed bastile saying it 13 11 IL tribute N which aich I 1 owe na as a son on to my looted father as an nid de camp to TAY general Ec aa as a missionary of 0 liberty 10 w its patriarch franch ench eager in liberty cai the e spirit or of lafayette mag aa I 1 tie t ie plait of army A hot hoitt ir young french officers offic cra I 1 oled on the Ped JUc as a crasti tor liberty end and crowded for pia piao O berthier Ber Bert liler ats n a at t yorktown and be he khame cag a marshal ina rahl of france de marched afoot the whole 7 0 miles from heliport to yorktown lork lorl town toun loung I 1 oung saint bamon closen chastel lux a brother of SIl a brother of talleyrand barras barrus later director barras and many other enthusiasts for liberty were mere in tho the expedition they understood americans reality was the particular american trait which mp resel them most and tills this idea was m as im arted by them from america into I 1 ranee rance placed himself and ills r amy under the command of cashing NN ion ton the ragged always had find the h right of the line in of equality of rank the american wacer blaas always took command con imand not so much as n cabbage was taken m without it hout pay ment before yorktown lork town the amerl cans were nvere not skilled in siege of aicra era ions lions and 11 athington gratefully nc re the serece 1 of the french engineers the fr a h fleet closed the aler and the surrender canio came with out that trench french help we me tamble to think what might have happen happer fired Lafayet tte ardor toward the clo clow of the year 1770 the duke of cumberland who mho was the brothe of king george III of englar arns in france and one day he lie arched at the to town n of metz theu then ft t rench A certain count de broglie a of many battles was in command of the garrison and to do honor to his tits ill distinguished visitor he invited some of his officers to meet milet him film nt tit dinner nom ow it harpt DM that the duko duke c cumberland was in adli 11 faor faier with royal brother he U was in net fact in lie ile had lately rec elied news nes that centala of his colonies col onles in america lind had rebelled and declared themselves free i declining to be subject any longer to to a wann icat king it 11 would seera seem that the duke of cumberland told tho story with is ith some gusto as if ho he were not al together sorry that his brother was in trouble one omber listened with particular attention atter tion he ile was a youth of nineteen tall and thin with a long iose and reddish hair ills tits solemn ex or fres slon and his somewhat awkward manner contrasted strongly with the frh olif l ease and grare of the other young officers present lie ile we a it madr marquis of long descent connected by marriage with till ono OZO of the greatt families in france and le had at his own dav idlor a very 7 large 1 income loc 01 he lie listened intently ha he asked many eager question and when lie ro 0 from the able table he had bad made a t ous and historic resolution lie ile bad resl resolved ved to abandon the pleas pleasures and luxuries of the gayest court in th thle world even to leave his young wife and child and to cast in Ms 1113 lot with in america in t these hose strange rebels ills own words word aco ihben first I 1 heard 0 american independence my heart was e pat young man WAS lafayette lae and when a the american any 21 weal went to the frant in france F rance it merely mely me ly ald a email small part pa rt of the debt of gratl ude tude we owe that th at splendid young of licer jeer abat that true nobleman appointed it major general by wash inston ington in july ho he fought at itie the battle of brandywine in september end and received nn an ugly wound soon again in the saddle lie went through many 1 I and privation 1 with wa anh kh ing inston ton nt at galley lalley iorge jorge his cro crowning ining exploit being the forcing of the retreat of I 1 lord ord Cornu cornwallis allis ls lending leading tu to hia his eor bur render nt at yorktown la in 1781 although and other famous amerl can minerals pin gine ernis rals had joined him previous to the surrender I 1 lafayette with fill a small force had find initiated the rout of cornwallis Cornwall ls at the battle of albemarle Albe marlc that the highest credit was due to lafaette Is shown by the fact that thanked and corn com tid him in tho the presence of the troop troops after the great surrender which practically endell the war patriot of nf marblehead co noral lafayette paid a tribute to mass by making to 11 to the people by whom lie was A an old time patriot cut of the cor ncr ef of hie his house that Lafayett Ufa yett tes carriage Carrl aoe might go through his HI street received with bands of and a huge procession of citizens it 1 related that on hia his first visit in 1781 there was a aversy us its to lie how p au wag was to proceed through the main street of the town owing to the fact that nt at one of tho th sharp tarn turns a house fo to jutted into the road that the generals coach could not pass I 1 on the rooming morning of the great event it was dl d cared that the patriotic fancy pyeng the property had cut off a tec fee lion of the house hou removing 1 the offend in ins arner and thus the coach ras driven without a bitch through the street streel the house with part ct of the first story missing can still be wn in his ibis year of 1010 and Is noun la in the |