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Title: Lafayette
Author: Martha Foote Crow
Release Date: January 11, 2009 [eBook #27777]
Language: English
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True Stories Of Great Americans
LAFAYETTE
[Illustration: Publisher's Logo]
The MacMillan Company
New York . Boston . Chicago . Dallas
Atlanta . San Francisco
MacMillan & Co., Limited
London . Bombay . Calcutta
Melbourne
The MacMillan Co. of Canada, Ltd.
Toronto
[Illustration: PORTAIT OF LAFAYETTE.
From an authentic portrait.
This shows Lafayette as a youthful general.]
LAFAYETTE
by
MARTHA FOOTE CROW
And what gave he to us?
He gave his starry youth,
His quick, audacious sword,
His name, his crested plume.
And what gave we?
We gave--a nation's heart!
New York
The MacMillan Company
1918
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1916,
by The MacMillan Company.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1916.
Reprinted October, 1917.
Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE
A BOY OF THE FRENCH NOBILITY 1
CHAPTER II
COLLEGE AND COURT 10
CHAPTER III
A BOY'S IDEALS 21
CHAPTER IV
THE GREAT INSPIRATION 27
CHAPTER V
FIRST DAYS IN AMERICA 42
CHAPTER VI
LAFAYETTE AT THE BRANDYWINE 52
CHAPTER VII
A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE 62
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