USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -George Washington met the nineteen-year-old Marquis de Lafayette on August 5, 1777, less than a week after the Continental Congress appointed the young Frenchman to be a volunteer Major General in the Continental Army. Lafayette was assigned to serve on Washington’s staff.

Detailed explanation-2: -For Lafayette, there was no better person to receive the symbol of the end of ancient tyranny than the man who fought so bravely to establish the United States. At first glance, Lafayette might seem an unlikely supporter of George Washington. Born in 1757, he came from one of France’s oldest families.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though he was torn between those two worlds, his friend Thomas Jefferson predicted that Layfayette’s strong republican sympathies would win out. Nevertheless, as the French Revolution unfolded, Lafayette continued to support the government of Louis XVI and the idea of a constitutional monarchy.

Detailed explanation-4: -In early October, approximately 17, 000 American and French troops led by Generals George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, respectively, surrounded British-occupied Yorktown.