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... Lafayette was put in charge . As soon as Lafayette had departed , how- ever , Lee changed his mind , and insisted that all the detachments in front , amounting to six thou- sand men , formed a division so large that it was unjust not to ...
... Lafayette was put in charge . As soon as Lafayette had departed , how- ever , Lee changed his mind , and insisted that all the detachments in front , amounting to six thou- sand men , formed a division so large that it was unjust not to ...
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... Lafayette , " You don't know the British soldiers ; we cannot stand against them . " He made a weak attempt to cut off a covering party , marched and countermarched , ordered and countermanded , until Lafayette and Wayne , eager to ...
... Lafayette , " You don't know the British soldiers ; we cannot stand against them . " He made a weak attempt to cut off a covering party , marched and countermarched , ordered and countermanded , until Lafayette and Wayne , eager to ...
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... Lafayette he wrote : " Everybody , sir , who reasons , will acknowledge the advantages which we have derived from the French fleet , and the zeal of the commander of it ; but in a free and republican government you cannot restrain the ...
... Lafayette he wrote : " Everybody , sir , who reasons , will acknowledge the advantages which we have derived from the French fleet , and the zeal of the commander of it ; but in a free and republican government you cannot restrain the ...
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... Lafayette , who acts upon very different principles from those which govern the rest . " A few days later he said , on the same theme , to the president of Congress : " I trust you think me so much a citizen of the world as to believe I ...
... Lafayette , who acts upon very different principles from those which govern the rest . " A few days later he said , on the same theme , to the president of Congress : " I trust you think me so much a citizen of the world as to believe I ...
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... against expeditions thither , until this winter of 1778 , when something quite new in that direction came up . Lafayette's imagination had been fired by the notion of conquering Canada . His idea was to get 246 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... against expeditions thither , until this winter of 1778 , when something quite new in that direction came up . Lafayette's imagination had been fired by the notion of conquering Canada . His idea was to get 246 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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