LAFAYETTE - A LIFE by Latzko, Andreas

Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1936. US 1st Edition , hard bound, VG condition( missing dj , cover lightly soiled, prev. owners name front free endpaper), 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 402 pages, 1 portrait.--------------------------------------- Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution.------------------------------------------------------In the American Revolution, Lafayette served as a major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington. Wounded during the Battle of Brandywine, he still managed to organize a successful retreat. He served with distinction in the Battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of the war he returned to France to negotiate an increase in French support. On his return, he blocked troops led by Cornwallis at Yorktown while the armies of Washington and those sent by King Louis XVI under the command of general Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville prepared for battle against the British.