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Excerpt from My Sword for Lafayette: Being the Story of a Great Friendship; And of Certain Episodes in the Wars Waged for Liberty, Both in France and America by One Who Took No Mean Part Therein Sometime the companion of the Marquis de Lafayette, who, at the age of nineteen years, f orsook his country and his family to embark his fortune and his life in the cause of the freedom and the liberty of a great people. But twenty-one years of age himself when he accompanied the American agents to Paris in the year '7 6, Zaida Kay was present at Barren Hill and contributed not a little to General Lafayette's success upon that occasion. Thereafter, he returned to France, believing that he could be of some service to 'the Marquis, who had befriended him in a signal manner in America, and was then believed by the American people to be in some grave peril by reason of his principles and their practice in Paris. The story of his adventurous journeys is not the least satisfactory page in the life of a man of singularly attractive character and indomitable courage. Zaida Kay was first and foremost the friend of Lafayette; but he was also a sterling soldier, who never forgot a kindness nor willingly did any man an injury. His attempt to rescue the Marquis after his own viiviii foreword. 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.

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• Plný název: My Sword for Lafayette
• Podnázev: Being the Story of a Great Friendship; And of Certain Episodes in the Wars Waged for Liberty, Both in France and America by One Who Took No Mean Part Therein (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Max Pemberton
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 334
• EAN: 9781334143748
• ISBN: 1334143749
• ID: 15362629
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 449 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 02. November 2016

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