Lafayette

Authors: Harlow Giles Unger

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Lafayette

Lafayette, in his uniform as a French brigadier general and maréchal de camp, in 1782, from an engraving by Adèle Ethiou of the painting at Versailles. (
From the author’s collection
.)

Lafayette

H
ARLOW
G
ILES
U
NGER

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Published simultaneously in Canada

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Unger, Harlow G., date.

Lafayette / Harlow Giles Unger.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-471-39432-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757–1834. 2. Generals—United States—Biography. 3. United States. Army— Biography. 4. Generals—France—Biography. 5. Statesmen—France—Biography. 6. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Participation, French. 7. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Biography. I. Title.

E207.L2 U45 2002

944.04′092—dc21

[B]

2002071327

Printed in the United States of America

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To my dear friends
André and Eva Mandel

To my brother
Roger H. Unger, M.D
.

and
To my son
Richard C. Unger

The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; She is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and of peaceful liberty.

Lafayette, June 7, 1777

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Preface

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