text: Marquis de La Fayette landed safely near Georgetown, South Carolina on June 13, 1777.\n\nThe American Revolutionary war was from 1775–1783 and the King of France at the time was Louis XVI. \n\nLouis XVI (August 23, 1754, Versailles – January 21, 1793, Paris) was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French from 1791 to 1793.