Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette

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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, la Fayette (6 September, 1757 – 20 May, 1834) was a French military officer born the Haute-Loire region of France. La Fayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution.

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  As an old man in 1830

Battles

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Legacy

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  George Washington and General Lafayette at Valley Forge.
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  Lafayette and Washington at Mt. Vernon, 1784
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