EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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George Rogers Clark
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Benjamin Franklin
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Marquis de Lafayette
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lafayette accomplished that mission, while wearing his Continental Army uniform in Paris. He helped convince the King in 1779 to send the French fleet north from the Caribbean to fight the British, as well as send additional troops.
Detailed explanation-2: -With no combat experience and not yet 20 years old, Lafayette was nonetheless appointed a major general in the Continental Army, and he quickly struck up a lasting friendship with the American commander in chief, George Washington.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat, a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-5: -Benjamin Franklin’s popularity in France bolstered French support for the American cause.