Lafayette, We Are Here

In the summer of 1777, a nineteen-year-old French nobleman named the Marquis de Lafayette sailed across the Atlantic at his own expense to fight for American independence. He shed his blood at Brandywine, endured the bitter winter at Valley Forge, and forged a bond with George Washington so deep that Washington called him "the son I never had." When Lafayette returned to France, he carried with him a covenant of friendship between two nations.…