todaysdocument:Marquis de Lafayette’s Oath of Allegiance, 6/9/1778 Series: Numbered Record Books,
todaysdocument: Marquis de Lafayette’s Oath of Allegiance, 6/9/1778 Series: Numbered Record Books, 1894 - 1913. Record Group 93: War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1709 - 1939 Born 260 years ago on September 6, 1757 to a wealthy aristocratic French family, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette would join the American cause during the Revolutionary War, becoming a major general in the Continental Army, and close friend of George Washington and other founding fathers. -- source link