The Marquis De La Fayette in the American Revolution With Some Account of the a
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VOL. I. 22 338 LA FAYETTE AT VALLEY FORGE [1778. condemned, according to the feelings that his actions aroused among friends and enemies amid the frightful social disorders through which he was destined to live ; but none of these wrought a personal injury comparable with the blight that must have fallen upon him if his service in the United States had been suddenly cut short on that eventful day in May, 1778. If the misfortune had overtaken him then of being captured by the British, upon the f...irst occasion when he had been intrusted with a separate command, involving, as it would have done, the loss to the Continental army of an extremely valuable body of men, the chances are that he would have been overwhelmed by the consequences, and that his influence would have been damaged beyond repair. The hold he had at that time upon the affairs of the nation was comparatively slight; it might have been broken, and the memory of La Fayette would have become that of a mere incident in the War of Independence ; he would not have had an opportunity to render to this country the valuable services which he rendered afterward, in the councils of war, and in his relations with the French Government and with the French troops in America, as well as on the field of battle ; nor would he have been re warded for the high-minded zeal and self-sacrifice which have forever endeared him to the American people.
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