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Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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.
3) Lafayette!
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
Language
English
Description
Presents a humorous graphic novel about Gilbert du Motier, who became the Marquis de Lafayette at an early age, and decided he wasn't satisfied with just position, so he boarded a ship at eighteen, became a major general at age nineteen, and journeyed to America to help fight for independence against the British.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
88 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recount how the aristocratic Frenchman, who disdained court life and craved battlefield glory, came to the aid of the Continental Army and ended up one of George Washington's closest associates and friends. From Lafayette's mostly fatherless childhood and military career to his exile for his part in the French Revolution and his final, vindicated days.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 502 pages ; 25 cm
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
Amulet Books
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette: what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.