The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-07-03

served his country in three different capacities
is married man, the father of twins and one
other child is major general in the American
army and is not yet twenty years Old"
Lafayette soon had opportunity to show his
mette. The English general Lord Howe, was
approaching Philadelphia with q superior force.
Washington marched out to meet him, and in
the skirmish at Brandywine Lafayette was
wounded while urging his men to stand firm.
Lafayette wrote to his wife, "Be entirely free
from anxiety to my wound, for all the doctors
in America are aroused 4 my bahnf. oave a
friend who has spoken for me In a way to insure
my being well taken care of. and that is General
Washington. That estimabe man, whom ven
crate the more now that learn to know him,
has become my intimate friend. His tender In
terest in my welfare quickly my heart. When
he sent his surgeon in chief 10 me he told him to
care for me as if l were his son. because ne loved
me much and having learned that l wanted
to join the army too soon again, he wrote me a
letter full of tenderness in which he admonished
me to wait until 1 should be entirely we'll"
Washngton's exact words in writing to the
surgeon were: "Take care of him as If he were
my son, for l love him the same"
On November %, 1777, Lafayette sent
with General Greene to test the strength of the
British advance on Philadelphia. Having dis
closed their position near Gloucester he attacked
the Hessians with such fury that the latter
routed and CORVALLIS, thinking that he was sur
with his 5000 men in hot haste.
This pleased Washington so much that he
wrote to congress asking for a regular command
for Lafayette. few days later Lafayette, to his
great delight, assigned to the command of
the Virginia division of the army.
AS time went relations between Washington
and Lafayette became steadily closer, the latter
sometimes referring to himself in their CORE
spondence as Washington's "young soldier" The
intimacy between the two men was like that of
father and son, the Frenchman being twenty-five
years younger than the general he greatly
admired
Having made a voyage to France on furlough
he returned in May, 1880. Joining Washington at
the army headquarters in Morristown and telling
him what nobody this side of the Atlantic
yet knew, of the coming of the military and naval
expedition sent by the king of France to help the
Americans. 1t was Lafayette himself who had
been largely instrumental In persuading the king
TO send the feet together with 5000 picked fight
Ing men under Rochambeau and the young mar
quis was dispatched in advance to carry the good
news.
In due time Rochambeau arrived with the army
of 5000 men and Admiral de Grasse with q feet
manned by 1900 sailors and marines.
Lafayette was put in command of 1000 men
and directed to march to Virginia and meet
CORVALLIS. the British commander. The troops
were so destitute that something had to be done.
Lafayette after expendng his available cash
borrowed on his personal account $4,000 from
the merchants of Baltimore.
De Grasses fleet headed for Yorktown, and
Washington with Rochambeau started to unite
with Lafayette in the struggle with CORVALLIS.
How Washington made forced marches to the
South I'm order the more completely to hem in
Lord Cornwas how the Count de Grasse with
his great fleet arrived Off Yorktown before the
arrival OF General Washington. and how La
fayette persuaded the French admiral to delay
that by winning that fight Washington could
overthrow the enemies in congress that try
ing to have some one else made commander in