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Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell...
...long obvious that the big (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.), handsome naval officer-among other things, he is called "Gorgeous George"-was headed for big things.* He flew Grumman fighters from the carrier Lexington, was a landing signal officer on the carrier Yorktown, executive officer of a squadron of PBY patrol planes. In 1943, he saw action in the Pacific as navigator and tactical officer aboard the newly commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer...
...struck as a succession of violent but passing storms." Boston and Philadelphia were occupied for only nine months each. The campaigns in the South were savage, but did not begin until 1780. And from the Battle of Monmouth (June 1778) till the beginning of the siege of Yorktown (September 1781), Washington's main army was obliged to fight no major battles...
...part because all the kids in the neighborhood did (volunteers received $1), but also because "I collected pretty correct ideas of the contest between this country and the mother country." The following spring Martin re-enlisted, and for the next six years fought at New York, Monmouth and Yorktown, and under Generals Washington, Lafayette and Steuben...
...Yorktown, then ceremoniously striking a few blows with a pickax so that future historians might write "General Washington with his own hands first broke ground at the siege of Yorktown...