A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

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len at the battle of Minden, by a shot from the artillery,
then commanded by General Philips. This fact is noticed
by the Marquis De Lafayette in a letter to General
Greene, touching his continuance in the command of
Virginia. "I will now only mention, that General Philips' battery, at Minden, having killed my father, I should
have on objection to contract the latitude of his plans."
At the' same time General Lafayette modestly solicited
to be confirmed in his command. As the direction
of the military operations in Virginia lhad been delegated to Steuben, while Lafayette was designed for a command in the main army, the Baron had expressed the
most serious chagrin at being superseded, at the very
moment when an opportunity presented itself for active
service. To give umbrage to either of two officers
whom he valued so highly, would have been, to General Greene, the subject of very great regret: all his
address was necessary to manage so as to continue
Lafayette in command, without disgusting a man whose
zeal and fidelity had rendered him such important services. But Steuben had become unpopular in Virginia,
and every thing was to be expected from the strong
public partialities in favour of Lafayette, and the high
opinion justly entertained of his capacity as a soldier.
Greene addressed the Baron as a friend, a man of understanding, and a zealous advocate of the cause and the
latter submitted with a magnanimity and self denial,
which furnish not the least of his claims to the gratitude of America.'
Not thinking it advisable to attempt the passage of
the river, Philips marched back to Bermuda Hundred,
a point of land at the confluence of the James and
Appomattox rivers, destroying in his way property to an
immense amount. At; that place he re-embarked his
troops, and fell down as far as Hog Island, which he
* Johnson's Greene, Vol. II. p. 52.