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On This Day - June 13, 1777, during the American Revolution, a young French aristocrat [View all]
Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arrived on American shores with the intention of serving in the Continental army under the
famed George Washington. Lafayette had been ordered by the French King Louis XVI to remain in France and not attempt to join the Americans as this action was sure to inflame the British, but the Marquis slipped out of the country anyways.
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