Lafayette in America (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lafayette in America The American Revolution is the romance of our national youth, always fresh with the charm of poetry and story, and woven into the traditions of the people. Its battles were insignificant in the numbers engaged and the blood spilled, its victories were pitifully few, its blunders and jealousies and failures were innumerable. But in its entirety it was the glorious, patriotic outburst of the spirit of national independence in an intelligent and self-respecting people. In its persistence, its territorial range, the odds it overcame and the results it achieved, it was the best and most prolific effort of the century - the birth of a new nation, springing quickly toward first rank, and inspiring the liberalizing revolution of European states and the larger political enfranchisement of mankind. I never tire of the story. The farmers who, with equal vigor, argued all day in town meeting for a new hinge for the meeting-house door, or shouldered their muskets and risked their lives and fortunes to maintain the birthright of freedom, the minutemen who rose in the early morning of April 19th to "do chores, " but before daybreak were gathering on Lexington Common, proclaiming that the whole British Empire was only a feather's weight against the cause of one Middlesex yeoman, taxed without his consent, the Maryland regiments and the Delaware line that came to such splendid discipline and valor in battle, and those devoted Southern soldiers under Pickens and Marion and Sumter, who, while their part of the country suffered more than any other from the ravages of the war, fought the British legions until they drove them to the sea - of these men and their comrades I never weary of hearing. 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.