WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -General Rochambeau, an aristocrat, was arrested during the French Revolution. His service to General Washington during the American War of Independence convinced the French Tribunal of his revolutionary loyalties and spared him from the guillotine.

Detailed explanation-2: -Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a Prussian military officer, provided important training for the American troops. As the drillmaster of Valley Forge, he taught the soldiers how to use the bayonet, and most importantly, how to re-form lines quickly in the midst of battle.

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: -During Lafayette’s time in France, he played an extremely crucial role in securing 6, 000 French troops for the American cause. Returning to the colonies in 1780, Lafayette’s news of French aid greatly improved American moral. Since his departure, the crucial field of battle had moved to the south.

Detailed explanation-5: -Some of this aid came in the form of 20-year-old French aristocrat Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who paid his way to America in 1777 to fight with distinction for the Continental army as a major general in Washington’s command.