[SunkenCiv]

Thanks afraidfortherepublic. The naval help from France was just exactly what was needed, just exactly when we needed it. Meanwhile Lafayette put his young ass on the line. From the wiki-wackypedia -- hope I edit this okay, my screen is clouding up.

In August 1792, the radical factions ordered his arrest. Fleeing through Belgium, he was captured by Austrian troops and spent more than five years in prison. Lafayette returned to France after Napoleon Bonaparte secured his release in 1797, though he refused to participate in Napoleon's government. After the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, he became a liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies, a position he held for most of the remainder of his life. In 1824, President James Monroe invited Lafayette to the United States as the nation's guest; during the trip, he visited all twenty-four states in the union at the time, meeting a rapturous reception... Lafayette died on 20 May 1834, and is buried in Picpus Cemetery in Paris, under soil from Bunker Hill.

"Nous voila, Lafayette (Lafayette, we are here!)" -- Charles Stanton, July 4, 1917, at the grave of Lafayette

[Grimmy]

Every time I see this kind of thing I think “oh crap. France is planning on getting its arse kicked again and needs to guilt us into fixing it, again.”