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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 to George Washington

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05467 Author/Creator: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: June 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 33.1 cm Order a Copy

Lafayette reports on his activities and strategy fighting Cornwallis in Virginia. Notes that he has avoided general actions and adds laconically that "His Lordship [Cornwallis] seems to have given up the Conquest of Virginia." Explains that the American forces were smaller, a fact they had to keep secret. Discusses military movements. Docketed and dated by Jared Sparks, possibly included in his biography of George Washington.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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