A review of Mr. Tower's "The Marquis de La Fayette in the American revolution."

Charles J. (Charles Janeway) Stillã©

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de La Fayette"The Marquis revolution;AMERICAN REPRINTED FROM Historv and liiooRAi'Hv;"The Pennsylvania Magazine of April, 1895. f f V A REVIEW OF MR. TOWER'S (( The Marquis de La Fayette IN THE AMERICAN revolution; PHILADELPHIA. 1895. r i/ Marquis de La Fayette"The IN THE REVOLUTION.'"AMERICAN who have been so differently judgedTheke are few men as La Fayette. In this country, ever since he, as a boy of years, offered himself to Mr. Deane, in tonineteen 1776, "serve the United States with all possible zeal, without any pension or particular allowance," down through a most period when, fifty years later, hestormy career to the made, as the nation's guest, a triumphal progress through built reputation as brightthe country, his -career np a and unsullied as that of any man in our history. He is to us progress whichthe typical leader of the new era in human was then dawning on the world as opposed to the ancim in him, andregime. Americans have never lost their faith feel more and more that, owing to his peculiar position, he ' "The Blarquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution: with Some Account of the Attitude of France toward the War of Indepen- Charlemagne Tower, Jr., LL.D. In two volumes. Phila-dence." By delphia : J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. " Marquis de Fayette in the American Revolulion."4 The La Olio the great heroes of the struggle for indepen-was of dence whom we sliould delight to honor.

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• Tower
• Lafayette

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English

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