{"id":5456,"date":"2026-06-13T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:51:13","slug":"marquis-de-lafayette-arrived-in-colonies-in-1777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5456","title":{"rendered":"Marquis de Lafayette Arrived in Colonies in 1777"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lafayette.jpg\" alt=\"Lafayette\" width=\"180\" height=\"259\" \/>Marquis de Lafayette landed near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1777 to help train patriot forces<\/strong>. Nineteen years old, he became a major-general in the American army without pay. He worked closely with American soldiers, and he also helped America\u2019s cause among the French. After the American Revolution he returned to France to help his own country establish a democracy. Children can learn more from the Liberty\u2019s Kids series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCFnDuouqxM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCFnDuouqxM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marquis de Lafayette landed near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1777 to help train patriot forces. Nineteen years old, he became a major-general in the American army without pay. He worked closely with American soldiers, and he also helped America\u2019s cause among the French. After the American Revolution he returned to France to help his own <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5456' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4810,266,5630,265,267],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4810","tag-charleston","tag-june-13","tag-marquis-de-lafayette","tag-south-carolina","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29418,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/29418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}