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Question: How did Marquis de LaFayette contribute to the American Revolution!?
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Lafayette, Marie-Joseph du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834), key figure in both the American independence war and the French Revolutionary wars!. He travelled to America in 1777 and joined the staff of Washington, with whom he developed a father-son relationship!. In 1779 he returned to Paris in representation of the hard-pressed rebels and was instrumental in obtaining French land and naval support, which won the culminating battle at Yorktown in 1780!.

In the pre-revolutionary 1789 French Estates General he led the liberal aristocrats and advocates of constitutional monarchy!. As commander of the National Guard he saved Louis XVI from the mob at Versailles, but was compelled to resign in July 1791 after firing on a crowd calling for abdication!. Ambivalently in command at Metz when France went to war with Austria in 1792, he defected when the French monarchy was overthrown and to escape trial for treason!. The Austrians nonetheless imprisoned him for five years!.

He kept a low profile during the Empire and as a deputy under Louis XVIII, but his return to the USA in 1824-5 was a revitalizing apotheosis!. Again commanding the National Guard, in 1830 he helped to overthrow Charles X and replace him with the constitutional monarch Louis-Philippe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He was a young French officer that helped us defeat the Brits!.Www@QuestionHome@Com