He knew them all.

After the ceremony of embracing and congratulations were over, La Fayette sat down by the side of Col.Willet.

"Do you remember," said the colonel, "at the battle of Monmouth, I was a volunteer aid to Gen.
Scott?
I saw you in the heat of battle, you were but a boy, but you were a serious and sedate lad." "Aye, aye," returned La Fayette, "I remember well.

And on the Mohawk I sent you fifty Indians, and you wrote me that they set up such a yell that they frightened the British horse, and they ran one way, and the Indians another." Thus these veteran soldiers "fought their battles o'er again." From New York La Fayette proceeded on a tour throughout the United States.

Everywhere he was received and honored, as "THE NATION'S GUEST." For more than a year, his journey was a complete ovation--a perpetual and splendid pageant.