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English
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"Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the Revolutionary War. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"The Frenchman who changed the course of the American Revolution. Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility he wanted adventure! A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager to prove himself in battle. When he heard about the Revolution going on in America, he went overseas and fought alongside Alexander Hamilton and George Washington for America...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Describes the rise and fall of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero who aided the colonists during the American Revolution, but who lost everything during the French Revolution due to his views that the monarchy needed to be reformed, not abolished.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An account of the friendship between the first American president when he was an officer in the Continental Army and the young Marquis de Lafayette describes how the latter came to America to offer his services before earning a military position and Washington's admiration.
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