. 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 . ed, however, by means of scouts, to keep watch over both armies and hopedfor the speedy arrival of expected reinforcements under General Wayne whichhe planned to use to resist a combined attack. Owing to the great difficulty oforganizing and equipping them, these reinforcements had not yet left Pennsyl-vania, and as La Fayette at thi
. 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 . ed, however, by means of scouts, to keep watch over both armies and hopedfor the speedy arrival of expected reinforcements under General Wayne whichhe planned to use to resist a combined attack. Owing to the great difficulty oforganizing and equipping them, these reinforcements had not yet left Pennsyl-vania, and as La Fayette at this time received orders from General Greene toassume command of all forces in Virginia and protect the state to the best of hisability, the importance of conserving and most efficiently employing his smallarmy rendered him extremely cautious; he wrote that he hardly dared trusthimself and when it is realized that Virginia was then the key to the most vitalissue of the war and that its protector, though so long a leader of men, was onlytwenty-four years of age, it is not surprising that the weight of this responsibilitywith the insufficiency of his means, bore heavily upon him. While General Phillips 27 LAFAYETTE (& ,:^^^;•^......^••:^v•^^. .,m\wk 0& RUINS CHURCH TOWER, JAMESTOWN IS., BUILT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VA. was on his way to Peters-burg he was stricken with afever and soon afterwarddied, upon which the com-mand of his troops devolvedagain upon Benedict soon after his reacces-sion he sent a letter to LaFayette under a flag of trucebut the latter on learningthe name of the sender re-fused to receive it, explain-ing to the bearer that hewould gladly communicatewith any other British offi-cer. This was in direct ac-cord with his instructionsfrom General Washingtonand the dictates of his ownfeelings, and it was highlyapproved by the country, butit naturally angered Arnold,who threatened hardship toAmerican prisoners, but nonotice was taken of h
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