This Day in History: January 31

Lafayette’s 1779 memoirs record his January 31, 1778, meeting with the Board of War. According to Lafayette, at dinner in Gates’s quarters that evening, he embarrassed the guests by asking them to drink to the health of the commander in chief...This gesture solidly displayed Lafayette’s loyalty to Washington, but it was not the only reason that the apparently unorganized move to displace Washington gradually diminished. [More]

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