Lafayette, We Come!
by Rupert Sargent Holland
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952
- Title
- Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France
- Credits
- Produced by Fred Salzer, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43843
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43843
- Release Date
- September 29, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Lafayette, We Come! — Illustrations — Foreword — Contents
- 2.I THE LITTLE MARQUIS OF FRANCE
- 3.II “WAKE UP! I’M GOING TO AMERICA TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!”
- 4.III HOW LAFAYETTE RAN AWAY TO SEA
- 5.IV THE YOUNG FRENCHMAN REACHES AMERICA
- 6.V “I WILL FIGHT FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY AS A VOLUNTEER!”
- 7.VI LAFAYETTE WINS THE FRIENDSHIP OF WASHINGTON
- 8.VII THE FRENCHMAN IN THE FIELD AGAIN
- 9.VIII THE MARQUIS AIDS THE UNITED STATES IN FRANCE
- 10.IX HOW LAFAYETTE SOUGHT TO GIVE LIBERTY TO FRANCE
- 11.X STORM-CLOUDS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 12.XI LAFAYETTE IN PRISON AND EXILE
- 13.XII IN THE DAYS OF NAPOLEON
- 14.XIII THE UNITED STATES WELCOMES THE HERO
- 15.XIV THE LOVER OF LIBERTY
- 16.XV AMERICA’S MESSAGE TO FRANCE—“LAFAYETTE, WE COME!”
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