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Memoirs of General Lafayette. With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States by Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo - 1924: from His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824

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Memoirs of General Lafayette. With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States by Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo - 1924

Memoirs of General Lafayette. With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States: from His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824

by Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo

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Boston: E. G. House, 1924. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo. Boston: E. G. House, 1924. First Edition. First Printing. Condition (Book/DJ): Fair/No Jacket. Handsomely bound in marbled paper-covered boards, this antique title is also marbled on the page edges. This is a scarce first edition of this biography and history of the 1824-1825 grand tour of the United States of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 - 20 May 1834), often known as simply Lafayette, a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution. During his trip, he visited all 24 American states, traveling more than 6,000 miles (9,656 km). Lafayette arrived from France at Staten Island in New York, on 15 August 1824, to an artillery salute. The towns and cities he visited, including Fayetteville, North Carolina, the first city named in his honor, gave him enthusiastic welcomes. During this tour he recognized and embraced James Armistead Lafayette, a free negro who took his last name to honor him, while in Yorktown, the story of the event was reported by the Richmond Enquirer. On 17 October 1824, Lafayette visited Mount Vernon and George Washington's tomb. On 4 November 1824, he visited Jefferson at Monticello, and on the 8th he attended a public banquet at the University of Virginia. Subsequently, he accepted an invitation for honorary membership to the University's Jefferson Literary and Debating Society. In late August 1825, he returned to Mount Vernon. A military unit decided to adopt the title National Guard, in honor of Lafayette's celebrated Garde Nationale de Paris. This battalion, later the 7th Regiment, was prominent in the line of march when Lafayette passed through New York before returning to France on the frigate USS Brandywine. Late in the trip, he again received honorary citizenship of Maryland. Lafayette was feted at the first commencement ceremony of George Washington University in 1824. He was voted, by the U.S. Congress, the sum of $200,000 and a township of land located in Tallahassee, Florida to be known as the Lafayette Land Grant. This antique volume exhibits external wear, with a detaching front board and cracked spine; the spine cover is missing. Text block is is cracked through the center of the spine. Lightly age-toned pages show very sporadic moderate foxing.
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  • Edition First Edition. First Printing.
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  • Publisher E. G. House
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published 1924
  • Pages 264
  • Keywords English

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