Excerpt from My Sword for Lafayette: Being the Story of a Great Friendship; And of Certain Episodes in the Wars Waged for Liberty, Both in France and America by One Who Took No Mean Part Therein This is the tribute of Zaida Kay, the friend and some time the companion of the Marquis de Lafayette, who, at the age of nineteen years, forsook his country and his family to embark his fortune and his life in the cause of the freedom and the liberty of a great people. But twenty-one years of age himself when be accompanied the American agents to Paris in the year t 776, Zaida Kay was present at Barren Hill and contributed not a little to General Lafayette's success upon that occasion. Thereafter, he returned to France, believing that he could be of some service to the Marquis, who had befriended him in a signal. Manner in America, at l was then believed by the American people to be in some grave peril by reason of his principles and their practice in Paris. The story of his adventurous journeys is not the least satisfactory page in the life of a man of sin gularly attractive character and indomitable courage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.