Some there were, however, and among them the Vicomte de Noailles, brother-in-law of La Fayette, who tramped on foot the whole seven hundred and fifty-six miles from Newport to Yorktown.

Washington himself left the army at Elkton and rode on with Rochambeau, making about sixty miles a day.

Mount Vernon lay on the way and here Washington paused for two or three days.

It was the first time he had seen it since he set out on May 4, 1775, to attend the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, little dreaming then of himself as chief leader in a long war.

Now he pressed on to join La Fayette.