General Lafayette Statue

ID: 4508 ~ Source: Flickr Commons ~ Creator: Sue Waters ~ Date: July 3, 2012

This file appears in: Marquis de Lafayette Statue: This monument honors the Marquis de Lafayette, a young French nobleman who fought for American Independence in both words and action.

This file appears in: Marquis de Lafayette Statue: This monument honors the Marquis de Lafayette, a young French nobleman who fought for American Independence in both words and action.

Marquis de Lafayette Statue: This monument honors the Marquis de Lafayette, a young French nobleman who fought for American Independence in both words and action.

By The DC Historic Sites team

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…