Excerpt from The Marquis De La Fayette in the American Revolution, Vol. 2 of 2: With Some Account of the Attitude of France Toward the War of Independence
La Fayette"s Plan for the conquest of Canada.
La Fayette"s intensely sensitive nature, and his constant ambition to distinguish himself as a soldier, left him full of regret, after the army had withdrawn from Rhode Island to the mainland, that it had been his mischance to be absent from his command at the moment when the action with the British forces had taken place before Newport. Although he had performed a valuable service by his mission to Boston in the interests both of the American army and of the French fleet, and although on his return, after an exceedingly hard ride, at the instant when the rear-guard was still to be brought off from the island, he had resumed his command immediately and effected the retreat without the loss of a single man, yet it was impossible for him to free his mind of a certain feeling of disappointment. From Tyvertown [Tiverton?] he wrote to General Washington, on the 1st of September, -
"My dear General, - That there has been an action fought where I could have been, and where I was not, is a thing which will seem as extraordinary to you as it seems so to myself.
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