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Thirty-six American cities and towns are named after the Marquis de Lafayette - the best-known being Fayetteville, N.C., and Lafayette, La. Countless streets, parks and counties also honor the French aristocrat who left his country at age 19 to enlist with George Washington in the American Revolution. (There's also Lafayette College in Easton, Penn.) Many other American locales bear the name of La Grange, Lafayette's chateau in France. LaGrange, Ga., comes to mind.
Fighting for the democratic ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, Lafayette became an American general and hero. At Lafayette's 1834 funeral in Paris, soil from Bunker Hill was dropped on the coffin. When U.S. Col. Charles Stanton arrived in Paris with American troops in 1917, he visited the gravesite, saluted the American flag beside it and famously announced, "Lafayette, we are here!"See the full content of this document
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Lafayette, We Are Embarrassed
U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and NATO allies in Afghanistan, shared no such grace or generosity toward his French com...
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