Harlow G Unger
1) Lafayette
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxiii, 452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate and detailed portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at nineteen, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty–at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A major general in the Continental army, he quickly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who called him...