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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gilbert de Motier,the Marquis de Lafayette, named his son George Washington Lafayette.


2 posted on 06/07/2015 8:45:15 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

James Armistead was a slave spy inside the British camp who spied for Lafayette while feeding false info to Benedict Arnold and Cornwallis.

He later took the name James Armistead Lafayette.


6 posted on 06/07/2015 8:50:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Mollypitcher1

This is perhaps just a story, but I seem to recall reading that Lafayette had soil from Bunker Hill taken back to France so that it could be used for his burial when the time came.


44 posted on 06/07/2015 7:24:55 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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