. 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 . HOUSE AT CHADDS FORD LA FAYETTES HEADQUARTERS f ul Moravian settlement at Beth-lehem, to recuperate. Althoughhe treated the matter verylightly in letters to his wife, hewas confined to his bed for sixweeks during which he sufferedseverely. The Moravian Brotherscared for him with great kind-ness and endeavored to turn hismind from war
. 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 . HOUSE AT CHADDS FORD LA FAYETTES HEADQUARTERS f ul Moravian settlement at Beth-lehem, to recuperate. Althoughhe treated the matter verylightly in letters to his wife, hewas confined to his bed for sixweeks during which he sufferedseverely. The Moravian Brotherscared for him with great kind-ness and endeavored to turn hismind from warlike thoughts, buthe spent much of his time inwriting—the only employmentpossible—plans for auxiliarycampaigns which were nevercarried out, although it was sub-sequently learned that they werethought well of by the Frenchauthorities to whom they wereaddressed. Washington in the mean-time had returned from Readingand engaged the British at Ger-mantown, but the advantagecontinued against him and afterthe loss of Forts MifHin andMercer on the Delaware river, which held out long and bravely against the English ships and sunk a good partof the fleet, he gave up the hope of retaking Philadelphia and withdrew to White-marsh, from whence he soon went into the
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