A gripping writing of one of the earliest heroes of American history, General Lafayette was a Frenchman but desired to see liberty prevail and the all too common tyrannical rule of the age dissipate.  This 1857 edition tells of the life, adventures, success and failures of the great Marquis de Lafayette, General in the US Army during the Revolutionary War. 
Excerpt from The Life of the General Lafayette: Marquis of France, General in the United States Army
The disinterested philanthropy and panting for freedom which Mated the Marquis in his youth, and engaged his riper thought when a venerable hermit at La Grange, ap peal to the heart and aspirations of the successors of the illustrious dead as the guardians Of a Republic, which has passed from the stormy deep of physical combat, to the less awakening, but equally perilous sea of moral and poli tical conflict.