The young Frenchman's supper

The French fleet and troops are on their way, and Lafayette, who has spent the winter pleading for a decisive campaign, is full of plans. He has invited Washington and Hamilton to a late supper, and the talk is all of the coming campaign in Virginia.

Washington is cautious and methodical, weighing the reports from the south; Hamilton, who will command a battalion at Yorktown, is eager for the assault. Lafayette, half their age and twice as animated, speaks of the debt the two nations owe each other. They eat roast turkey and glazed ham with succotash, finish with mince pie, and drink sangaree, and before long Washington is drawing the campaign on the cloth.