Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from La Fayette's Second Expedition to Virginia in 1781: A Paper Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, June 14th, 1886
We had fought many battles since blood was first shed at Lexington in 1775. Bunker Hill, Trenton, Brandywine, Camden, and King's Moun tain, and Other bloody fields had attested the deter mination of the American people to be a free and independent nation yet no battle like Zama or the Boyne, or Waterloo, had changed the policy and the hopes of the nations that contended for suprem acy on the American continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
