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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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