. An account of the life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de La Fayette : Major-General in the service of America and the noblest patriot of the French Revolution : with illustrations of the La Fayette pattern of sterling silver tableware . rank of brigadier general in the British army. These operations werefollowed with intense interest by General Washington, who cherished the hope ofdislodging the British from their strongholds in the South. He was authorizedby Congress to appoint General Nathanael Greene to supersede Gates, and theformer was already in North Carolina
. An account of the life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de La Fayette : Major-General in the service of America and the noblest patriot of the French Revolution : with illustrations of the La Fayette pattern of sterling silver tableware . rank of brigadier general in the British army. These operations werefollowed with intense interest by General Washington, who cherished the hope ofdislodging the British from their strongholds in the South. He was authorizedby Congress to appoint General Nathanael Greene to supersede Gates, and theformer was already in North Carolina with the nucleus of an army, when Arnoldarrived at the James river on the thirtieth of December, 1780. General Greenehad aroused the country through which he passed, to fresh and notable exertionsfor the support of his troops, and was gathering an effective army at Charlotte,North Carolina, but as he was fully occupied in checking Cornwallis it was neces-sary to combat Arnold with another division. To this end General Washingtondetached a part of the Light Infantry commanded by La Fayette in the fall of1780, and ordered a rendezvous of New Jersey troops at Morristown—in allabout twelve hundred men—which he placed under La Fayette with instructions 24. ASSEMBLY HALL AND LIBRARY, BALTIMORE FROM A PRINT OWNED BY THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY to proceed at once to the head of the Elk river and from there to embark, underFrench convoy if possible, for Hampton Roads or other advantageous point. La Fayette received the command on the twentieth of February and startedat once on the mission. He planned so wisely and marched so expeditiously thathe reached the Elk several days ahead of the date mentioned by General Wash-ington in his instructions, notwithstanding unfavorable weather and roads. Hehad seen to the shipment of ammunition and supplies from Philadelphia and writ-ten Governor Jefferson of Virginia requesting reinforcements of militia and alsohorses for the artillery he h
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