human
No man, I believe, Washington wrote concerning his own fate,
gpt
They seem to be genteel, sensible men, wrote Washington to Congress, in October, 1776,
human
One of them, the commander-in-chief learned, was a young enthusiast who had left wife and child to serve the American cause as a volunteer, and without pay, like George Washington himself. He had crossed the ocean, escaping the British cruisers, on a boat called _La Victoire_, he being called Lafayette. One more encumbrance, audibly muttered the general, who wrote to Benjamin Harrison:
gpt
What the designs of Congress respecting this gentleman were, and what line of conduct I am to pursue to comply with their design and his expectation, I know no more than the child unborn, and beg to be instructed.
human
Give me a chance, pleaded Lafayette, still in Philadelphia;
gpt
I do not want to be an honorary soldier. He came to camp, and it was a case of friendship at first, or at least second, sight, which would need the pen of a Plutarch to be told. In August, Washington had been wondering what to do with the newcomer. On the 1st of November he wrote to Congress: