E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jen Haines, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 27777-h.htm or 27777-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/7/7/27777/27777-h/27777-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/7/7/27777/27777-h.zip) 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 CHAPTER VIII LAFAYETTE AT MONMOUTH 73 CHAPTER IX THE RETURN TO FRANCE 86 CHAPTER X LAFAYETTE IN VIRGINIA 100 CHAPTER XI THE TWO REDOUBTS 111 CHAPTER XII THE SURRENDER OF YORKTOWN 119 CHAPTER XIII LIONIZED BY TWO WORLDS 128 CHAPTER XIV GATHERING CLOUDS 137 CHAPTER XV LAFAYETTE IN PRISON 144 CHAPTER XVI AN ATTEMPTED RESCUE 154 CHAPTER XVII A WELCOME RELEASE 171 CHAPTER XVIII A TRIUMPHAL TOUR 179 CHAPTER XIX LAST DAYS OF LAFAYETTE 193 * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF LAFAYETTE _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THE COUNCIL AT HOPEWELL 78 THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS 126 FRANCIS KINLOCH HUGER 160