Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he Britishambassador against suchacts were unheeded. Thegovernment made secretgrants of arms and mili-tary stores to the Ame-ricans, and three ship-loads were sent out inthe spring of 1777. Twoof these vessels werecaptured by the English,but the third reachedAmerica in safety, andits cargo went to sup-ply the deficiencies ofthe army at Morristown. In the spring of thisyear the commissionerssent to France by Con-gress reached that coun-try. They had full pow-ers to enter into an alli-ance with the FrenchKing, They were granted several privateinterviews by the Count de Vergennes, theFrench Prime Minister, and were secretlyencouraged to hope for the success of theirmission. As yet, however, France was notprepared to declare war against Great Britain. Though the government delayed itsaction, there were generous hearts in Francewho were determined to give all the aid andcomfort in their power to the strugglingpatriots. One of these was the youthfulMarquis de Lafayette, the heir of a nol *c
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THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. name, the possessor of wealth and a highsocial position, and the husband of a beauti-ful and accomplished wife. He had heardat a dinner party given by the French offi-cials at Mayence to the Duke of Gloucester,a brother of the King of England, the story 4t4 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. of the war then going on in America, and itscauses, related by the lips of the royalguest. His generous heart at once went out insympathy to the patriots, and he resolved toleave his family and all his advantages athome and go to the aid of the Americans.He revealed his intention to the Count deBroglie, a Marshal of France, who regardedhis enterprise as Quixotic and refused toaid him. Finding him determined, thecount introduced his young friend to theBaron de Kalb, an officer of experience andmerit, who had visited America as Choiseursagent in the last reign. De Kalb introducedLafayette to Silas Deane, then the onlyA.merican Commissioner in France. A Young Major-General. The news o

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