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    Marquis de Lafayette (or Portrait of La Fayette) is an oil on canvas painting by Samuel Morse, from 1825. Mostly known for his invention of the telegraph...
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    From July 1824 to September 1825, the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the...
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    of colors Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, 1826 Portrait of Lafayette While returning by ship from Europe in 1832, Morse encountered Charles Thomas...
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    American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1917...
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    Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and...
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    (link) de), Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette (marquis; de), Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette (marquis; Allyn...
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    and three miles downstream. It was named for the French general Marquis de Lafayette, a Revolutionary War hero. When European explorers arrived at this...
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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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    d'Aguesseau to her daughter Adrienne de La Fayette. She passed it on to her husband, General Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who lived there from 1802...
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  • decorated veteran of the First World War. The Order's patron is the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who was commissioned a general in the Continental...
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    Lally-Tollendal was in support of a Revolution and supported the Marquis de Lafayette. But, as the Revolution progressed, Lally-Tollendal's own conservative...
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    Ladelle Lafayette County LaGrange ("the barn" (possibly for the plantation of the Marquis de Lafayette)) Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine...
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  • Adeline Burr Ellery Nicholas Emery Isaac Ilsley Adoniram Judson Marquis de Lafayette James Wiley Magoffin (1852) Benjamin Pierce Martha C. Dickinson Pooke...
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    to the Tuileries Palace, in Paris, to defend King Louis XVI while Marquis de Lafayette led the National Guard in Vincennes to stop a riot. A confrontation...
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    attempted to form an alliance with the Marquis de la Fayette, but the two could not agree on a personal level, and Lafayette had his own theories about a new...
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  • Liberty! (category Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    Burgoyne), Colm Feore (Alexander Hamilton), Sebastian Roché (The Marquis de Lafayette), Donna Murphy (Abigail Adams), Austin Pendleton (Benjamin Rush)...
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    The Lafayette–New Iberia–Opelousas combined statistical area is made up of six parishes in the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana. The statistical...
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    Guardsmen who had heard the news were assembling at the Place de Grève. The Marquis de Lafayette, in Paris as their commander-in-chief, discovered to his dismay...
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    A Love Letter to Marsha Life Force Madison Square Park Fountain Marquis de Lafayette Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust Metronome Mural...
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    (the brigades of John Glover and James Mitchell Varnum) led by the Marquis de Lafayette. News of the French involvement rallied support for the cause, and...
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    suspected of murder, the Comte de Solages, imprisoned by his father using a lettre de cachet. A previous prisoner the Marquis de Sade had been transferred...
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    was al months long renamed only a year later in 18sland celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), of France, a hero of the American Revolutionary...
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    1899 – June 23, 1975) was an American historian, an expert on the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught at the University of Chicago...
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    mansion. In the summer of 1824, on his visit to the United States, the Marquis de Lafayette dined there on his way upriver to visit Lewis' brother-in-law, Chancellor...
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    Presbyterian Church, Queens: 89  New York Marriott Marquis North Central Bronx Hospital River Park Towers St. Frances de Chantal's Church St. John the Baptist Church...
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    posed by Arnold and Phillips, General Washington dispatched the Marquis de Lafayette to defend Virginia. The young Frenchman had 3,200 men at his command...
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    effectively that it destroys the attacker's reputation. When the Marquis de Lafayette visited the United States in 1824 and 1825, his itinerary while in...
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    militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion. OCLC 763372623. Monaque, Rémi (2000). Les aventures de Louis-René de Latouche-Tréville...
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    exception of the princes of Bourbon-Vendôme, the king of Navarre and the prince de Condé who were conscious that they would likely be arrested if they attended...
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  • of George Canning Portrait of Sir Walter Scott Samuel Morse – Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette Alexander Nasmyth – A Prospect of London Nicéphore Niépce...
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