Note 1 — THE CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE.
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Extract of a letter from Congress to the King of France, dated November 29th, 1781.
"Major-General the Marquis de Lafayette, has in this campaign so greatly added to the reputation he had before acquired, that we are desirous to obtain for him, on our behalf even, notice, in addition to that favorable reception, which his merits cannot fail to meet with from a generous and enlightened Sovereign; and, in that view, we have directed our Minister Plenipotentiary to present the Marquis to your Majesty."