This week on The Historians Podcast, New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan looks at the life of French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolution, Marquis de Lafayette.
You can listen to the podcast here.
Jim Kaplan also is author of a more extensive article on Lafayette that has appeared in New York Almanack.
Lafayette was a wealthy French aristocrat whose father had been killed by the British in the Battle of Minden in the Seven Years War, when young Lafayette was only two years old.
Lafayette grew up to fight alongside George Washington during the American Revolution. Lafayette played a key role in the British defeat at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781.
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Ahh … “de LaFayette.” – among the French military who helped US win freedom from Britain. Picture this: The Battle of NY, Washington’s strategic advance to the rear (aka withdrawal) from The (now) Bronck’s into (the now) Westchester. In the analog age, circa 1980. NYPD patrol car advising Central (dispatch) that they had arrived at location of incident on Rock-am-boo-y Avenue. I had to explain to some confused troops that it was “Rochambeau” and modeled the pronunciation … and that it was near Montefiore Hospital, whose location everyone knew, where they could expertly stem bleeding. And so it was among those people, at that time, in that place. Thanks for the senior-memory jog, Bob C!