Lafayette Monument, Washington

ID: 3379 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Detroit Photographic Co. ~ Date: c. 1898
This file appears in: Marquis de Lafayette Statue
Lafayette Monument, Washington
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This file appears in: Marquis de Lafayette Statue

This memorial commemorates the Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, a French nobleman who at the age of twenty crossed the Atlantic to fight for American Independence, despite a royal decree prohibiting French officers from joining the Continental Army.…