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    Square Park: Marquis de Lafayette". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved July 15, 2014. Media related to Lafayette statue in Union...
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    General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette is a statue in the southeast corner of Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C., near the intersection of Pennsylvania...
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    October 2007 at the Wayback Machine New-York Historical Society The Cornell University Library Lafayette Collection The Marquis de Lafayette collection, Cleveland...
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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, was widely commemorated in the U.S. and elsewhere...
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    Marquis de Lafayette is a monumental statue on the campus of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The statue, designed by Daniel Chester French and...
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    1825, the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United...
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    Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east and Pennsylvania Avenue on the south. It is named for the general, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat...
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    This is a list of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War. Many of these places were named for him...
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    of his wife, $35,000 would be allocated to the city of Brooklyn to fund the erection of a statue in honor of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in...
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    escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French...
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    Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation. As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold...
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    Depicting Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette with George Washington, and designed by Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, it was the only U.S. silver dollar...
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    Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (category Statue of Liberty)
    statue in Place de Jaude, Clermont-Ferrand. Marquis de Lafayette, statue of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in Union Square, Manhattan, New York...
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    Gilbert de La Fayette (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American...
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  • former Congressman from New York and decorated veteran of the First World War. The Order's patron is the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who was...
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    and contracted the statue. Marquis de Lafayette provided his portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully for a reference. The statue was completed in...
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    Lafayette Street is a major north–south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan. It originates at the intersection of Reade Street and Centre Street...
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    the rebuilding of 52 churches in London after the Great Fire. In 1921, the statue of the Marquis de Lafayette was dedicated on the south entrance of the...
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    Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is...
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    nascent fight against the British. In July 1777, Kalb returned to North America with his protégé, the Marquis de Lafayette, and joined the Continental Army...
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    was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS Lafayette. In 1942, while being converted to a troopship, the liner caught fire and capsized onto...
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    later, Rochambeau died in 1807. After the installation of the statue of the Marquis de Lafayette in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C., in 1891, plans...
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    New York City since the equestrian statue of George III in 1770, and the first American equestrian sculpture cast in bronze. The Marquis de Lafayette...
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  • château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the province of Auvergne (now Haute-Loire): Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834)...
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    force led by Marquis de Lafayette. The French and American armies united north of New York City during the summer of 1781. When word of de Grasse's decision...
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    The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette...
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    John Quincy Adams Ward (category National Academy of Design members)
    Washington, D.C. Statue of George Washington, Federal Hall National Memorial, New York City Statue of Marquis de Lafayette, University of Vermont Green,...
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  • Bergen-Lafayette is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey. As its name implies, Bergen-Lafayette is made of different neighborhoods. It lies west-southwest...
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    land and later retired in New York, where he died in 1794. In the late 1890s, plans were made to erect statues in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.,...
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    François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, SMOM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer and nobleman. He...
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