Monday, June 13, 2011

Marquis de Lafayette

No major battles occurred on this date.

But in in 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arrives in South Carolina for the first time from France with the intent to serve as General George Washington’s second-in-command.
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