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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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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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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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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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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Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (/ˌlɑːfiːˈɛt, ˌlæf-/...
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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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The Lafayette College campus is a 110-acre suburban area located on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Lafayette College also owns and...
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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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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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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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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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combined forces to the siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake. On 22 September, they combined with the Marquis de Lafayette's troops and forced...
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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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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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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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by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington with support from Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops...
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Manhattan, New York City. Named after the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, the park is roughly trapezoidal in shape,...
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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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while Marquis de Lafayette led the National Guard in Vincennes to stop a riot. A confrontation between the guards and the nobles started, as the guards...
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Founded as Columbian College (1821), the name was changed in agreement with the George Washington Memorial Association (1904). Statues in University Yard...
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Hamilton (musical) (redirect from Best of Wives and Best of Women)
Laurens, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Hercules Mulligan ("Aaron Burr, Sir"), and impresses them with his rhetorical skills ("My Shot"). The latter three...
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Huntington, Danbury Public Library, 1960. Hartford Marquis de Lafayette, by Paul Wayland Bartlett, Lafayette Circle, 1907, this casting 1932. Count Casimir...
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an 1835 book about the life and times of the Marquis de Lafayette, Jules Germain Cloquet reports that Lafayette – on his visit to the United States in 1824...
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (redirect from Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis Cornwallis)
Arnold and Phillips, General Washington dispatched the Marquis de Lafayette to defend Virginia. The young Frenchman had 3,200 men at his command, but British...
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Casimir Pulaski (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
that Pulaski was a Freemason. When Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone of the monument erected in Pulaski's honour in Monterey Square...
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Hercules Mulligan (category Columbia College (New York) alumni)
Madison. Mulligan appears in the first act of the play as a friend of Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, and Marquis de Lafayette, working as a tailor's apprentice...
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Yorktown campaign (category Campaigns of the American Revolutionary War)
through the southern states. These forces were first opposed weakly by Virginia militia, but General George Washington sent first Marquis de Lafayette and...
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Liberty's Kids (category Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
service Marquis de Lafayette (voiced by Ben Beck) Comte de Rochambeau Johann de Kalb Admiral Comte de Grasse Comte de Vergennes King Louis XVI of France...
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British also captured 11 out of 14 of the American artillery pieces. Among the American wounded was the Marquis de Lafayette. In addition to losses in battle...
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