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  Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis dem Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

  Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis dem Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in , when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest.
  
  As Lafayette opened doors in Paris and Versailles for Jefferson, so too did the Virginian stand bygd Lafayette as the Frenchman became inexorably drawn into the maelstrom of his country's revolution. Jefferson counseled Lafayette as he drafted TheDeclaration o

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Revolutionary Brothers: &#;To Learn, and Not to Teach&#;

by Tom Chaffin

In Tom Chaffin&#;s second excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers, the Marquis de Lafayette inspects the Continental Army for the first time in Although the Army is raggedly dressed and poorly armed, Lafayette acts with grace and humility as General Washington displays his troops.

At City Tavern, Washington invited Lafayette to join him the next day, August 1, , for a tour of defenses along the Delaware River. As Philadelphia braced for attack, hopes for thwarting the city’s capture focused on forts and gun batteries along the river that flowed by it. A week later, at noon on August 8, Lafayette got his first glimpse of the Continental army. At an encampment eight miles north of Philadelphia, near Germantown, Pennsylvania, he joined Washington for a review of troops. Lafayette refrained from critical comment that day, but found the scene at once impressive and dispiriting: “About eleven thousan