commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

French general and politician (1757–1834)

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1777 and 1781: 3 battles and 1 siege, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 374 km apart end to end, 125 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Revolutionary War (4).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

American Revolutionary War 4

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
11 September 1777	Battle of Brandywine	Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, United States		British victory
25 November 1777	Battle of Gloucester	Gloucester, New Jersey, United States	34 km E	American victory
1781	Siege of Yorktown	Yorktown, Virginia, United States	315 km S	Franco-American victory
6 July 1781	Battle of Green Spring	Yorktown, Virginia, United States	25 km W	British victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Joseph-Désiré Court, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.