A YOUNG NOBLEMAN

A young man was a french nobleman, the son of one of the richest and most important families of France. He heard about the revolution of America. He wanted to come and help. He was only eighteen years old. He was tall, handsome, familiar figure in the high society of Paris. His family tried to stop him, they asked the King of france to throw him into jail in order to stop him. But the young nobleman had already bought his own ship and gathered some friends to go with him. He escaped and came to America. The young man was Marquis of Lafayette. He arrived and discovered that no one knew him here. He had been promised he would be an officer in the army, but congress said that they wanted no more foreign officers, Lafayette sat down and cried. He couldn't go back to France, he offered to serve as a volunteer without pay, congress accepted him. Later, Lafayette met Goerge Washington, agreat effection grew up between father and son, Lafayette became his own personal aide. Ones toward the end of the war, the men under lafayette's command were all in rags. Lafayette asked for new unifrom. Congress had no money to buy the unifrom. Using his own personal credits, Lafayette went to the merchants of Baltimore, and at his own expenses, bought a new unifrom for each man, two thousand suits of clothes. On this way his men were able to go on fighting.