MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

by: Jordon MooreBell-2

1.BRIEF SUMMARY OF MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE'S LIFEMarie-Josèphe Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Mortier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette(full Name)was born on 9-6-1751 in Chavaniac, France. He served the continental army with distinction in the American revolutionary war ,providing leadership while securing vital recourses from France .he also joined the freemasons in 1775.He joined his home country during the French revolution and served. He became statesman before his death on may-20-1834.

• Marquis de Lafayette was a general in the revolutionary war(American)then George Washington appointed him to major general. He also was a political leader supporting the patriots and what they did. Marquis de Lafayette was a French nobleman who sympathized with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. His primary accomplishments were training American soldiers on how to fight the English forces in open battle and asking for French support. Lafayette was one of George Washington's most trusted military aides as well as a good friend.

2.MARQUIS AND WHAT HE DID IN THE WAR

George Washington with Marquis de Lafayette

This book cover indicates that Marquis was probably shorter than George

4.Marquis da Lafayette after the revolutionary warMarquis de Lafayette did survive the war. After the war he went back to France. He had rejoined the French army. He also drafted the “declaration of the rights of man and citizen". He also had a job to protect the royal family when violence broke out at that time.

3&5.Loyalist ,patriot? Good or bad?• Marquis was a French

man and his country and him made an alliance with the Americans so that means he was a patriot. He fought with them in the war.

• I think he was a good guy I think he was a hero and I think he was fighting on the right side of the war. Besides the fact that he was a freemason. But besides that he was a good person on the outside.

Was he Good or bad?

• Lafayette was unwilling to cooperate with Napoleon's government. In 1804, Napoleon was crowned Emperor after a plebiscite in which Lafayette did not participate. He remained relatively quiet, although he spoke publicly on Bastille Day events. After the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson asked if he would be interested in the governorship. Lafayette declined, citing personal problems and the desire to work for liberty in France.[135] During a trip to Auvergne, Adrienne became ill, largely due to her time in prison. In 1807, she became delirious but recovered enough on Christmas Eve to gather the family around her bed and to say to Lafayette: "Je suis toute à vous" ("I am all yours"). She died the next day

LATER LIFE

• Marquis had a wife and three children.

• Georges Washington- de La Fayette was the son of Gilbert du Métier, marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne de La Fayette. Lafayette named his son in the honor of George Washington, whom he fought alongside with in the Revolutionary War.

HIS FAMILY

• In February 1779, Lafayette returned to Paris. For disobeying the king by going to America, he was placed under house arrest for eight days. Nevertheless, his return was triumphant.[16] Benjamin Franklin's grandson presented him with a 4,800-livre gold-encrusted sword commissioned by the Continental Congress, and the king asked to see him.[43] Louis XVI, pleased with the soldier after Lafayette proposed schemes for attacking the British, restored his position in the dragoons. Lafayette used his position to lobby for more French aid to America. Working with Franklin, Lafayette secured another 6,000 soldiers to be commanded by General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau.[16]

• Lafayette received news that Adrienne had borne him a son, Georges Washington Lafayette.[44] After his son's birth, he pushed for additional commitments of support from France for the American Revolutionary War. He ordered new uniforms and arranged for the fleet's departure. Before returning to America, Lafayette and the French force learned that they would be operating under American command, with Washington in control of military operations. In March 1780, Lafayette gave power of attorney to business manager Jacques-Philippe Grattep

• ain-Morizot and Adrienne,[45] and left France, departing for America aboard the Hermione,[46] from Rochefort. He arrived in Boston on 28 April, carrying the then secret news that he had secured French reinforcements (5,500 men and 5 frigates) for George Washington.

HIS RETURN TO FRANCE

• Lafayette spoke for the last time in the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1834. The winter was wet and cold, and the next month he collapsed at a funeral from pneumonia. Although he recovered, the following May was wet and, after a thunderstorm, he became sick and bedridden

• American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honors as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot representing a U.S. state.

HIS DEATH