Joseph Lydon of Salem, Massachusetts, served in the 3d Regiment, Legion Etrangere. After he lost a foot in combat, he became the first American to win the Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre.
~~ Walt Brown, Jr., An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), p 15.
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