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CAPT. LOUIS FRAN’OIS BERTRAND DUPONT D’AUBEVOYE, COMTE DE LAUBERDIÈRE, served the patriot cause in the Revolution, did all he could to teach Virginians proper French manners, made love to the local women, and found every American inferior. Except for one.

Donald Kagan, a historian of the ancient world believes that, in every era, people have reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that, to protect our national interests today, Americans must understand the choices that soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago.

A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war

His contemporaries saw the painter Charles Burchfield as another regionalist. Today, it seems clear that the region was the human spirit.