The Marquis De La Fayette in the American Revolution With Some Account of the a

The first major study (1894) of Lafayette in America drew heavily on original sources, memoirs, documents, and correspondence to provide this foundational work in the study of the man, the roles of such fellow French leaders as Vergennes, d'Estaing, Rochambeau, and Chastellux, and the events of the Revolution which he witnessed and in which he participated, especially at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and the concluding Virginia campaigns. The work also provided the first major study of the diplomati