article_snippet.sent: Lafayette crossed the Atlantic on The Hermione in 1780 to tell his friend George Washington, commander of the American insurgents against British imperial rule, that France was sending a strong military force to help his friend George Washington, commander of the American insurgents against British imperial rule.
article_snippet.sent: Lafayette crossed the Atlantic on the original Hermione in 1780 to tell his friend George Washington, commander of the American insurgents against British imperial rule.
article_snippet.sent: French helped the Red Coats during the War of Independence .
article_snippet.sent: To the American independence movement of the time, Lafayette - whose full name was Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Motier de Lafayette - was 'our Marquis'.
article_snippet.sent: Although an aristocrat who persuaded King Louis XVI into sending military help to Washington's men, Lafayette also maintained a civic role after the king and much of the French nobility had been executed in France's own revolution, which began in 1789, less than a decade after French President Francois Hollande (right) voyage.
article_snippet.sent: The two countries sealed The two countries friendship almost a century after Lafayette's voyage with the 1876 inauguration of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York harbour, a gift from the French people to commemorate the centenary of the declaration of independence.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Hermione carried France's Marquis de Lafayette to America in 1780 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Was sent to warn George Washington French troops were being sent .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: George Washington French troops were being deployed to help the revolutionaries defeat Red Coats .
  