Statistics for occurrence #1 of “M. de Lafayette” in entry lafayette-marie-jean-paul-roch-yves-gilbert-motier-marquis-de of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...o the sound of drums and fifes, these soldiers, in spite of their state of nudity, offered an agreeable spectacle to the eyes of all the citizens. General Washington was marching at their head, and M. de Lafayette was by his side. The army stationed itself upon the heights of Wilmington, and that of the enemy landed in the Elk River, at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay. The very day they landed, General Washin...
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