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Marquis de Lafayette’s Emotional Return To Mount Vernon
Season 42, Ep. 4
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Go behind the scenes and learn what official measure took place prior to 1824,155 Years earlier come October 21, 1669. Discover what happened on Saturday October 16, 1824 involving Lafayette. Learn everything possible about Lafayette’s visit to a port city located right outside Washington D.C. including his meeting noteworthy people. Agree if it’s fair to say that Marquis de Lafayette himself knew George Washington very well from an insiders standpoint. Find out if in fact Lafayette himself lived with the Washington Family after Revolutionary War’s end. Understand importance behind a letter which Washington himself wrote to Lafayette regarding the future in seeing one another again. Discover when Lafayette officially learned the news about Washington’s death. Learn if Lafayette himself recognizes a servant whom he met 40 Years earlier in 1784 and is still alive 40 Years later come 1824. Determine if in fact George Washington freed any enslaved people at Mount Vernon shortly after his death. Find out how Lafayette arrived to Mount Vernon including his thoughts upon whom would & wouldn’t be there to officially greet him. Go behind the scenes and learn exactly what Lafayette had sent George Washington come March 1790 & still remained present at Mount Vernon by 1824. Understand just how emotional of a return it was for Father & Son Lafayette to visit Mount Vernon. Go behind the scenes and learn firsthand how emotional Lafayette himself was upon receiving a gift that involved something personal of George Washington’s. Determine if Lafayette clutched onto anything unique around Washington’s tomb.
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