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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions, and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in...
3) Lafayette!
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette, both what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
88 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of Marquis de Lafayette, a young French nobleman, who helped bring victory at Yorktown and became a lifelong friend of George Washington.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
564 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond as strong as any between father and son, a trust that saw them through betrayals, shifting political alliances, and the trials of war. Their friendship continued throughout their lives....
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source/Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st bilingual ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and work of French soldier and political thinker, Marquis de Lafayette, and his role in the American Revolution.
10) General and Madame de Lafayette: partners in liberty's cause in the American and French Revolutions
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Taylor Trade Pub. ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
512 pages
Language
English
Description
"Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. As an idealistic and courageous teenager serving in the American Revolution, he used his considerable wealth and savvy to help the Americans defeat the British. Then he returned home, and was a principal...
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