Revolutionary War general with the nickname "The Hero of the Two Worlds"

Usage examples of lafayette.

Hay-Adams, across Lafayette Park from the White House, when Angleton sank onto the stool next to Philby at the low end of the bar.

Lafayette himself cooperated for a time with a secret Carbonari plot to overthrow the French regime by force, though most of his political activity took the legal form of speeches, letters, and meetings with liberal deputies.

Indeed, when young conspirators in the military and in the Carbonari societies planned an uprising for late December 1821, Lafayette agreed to go to the garrison town of Belfort in eastern France and to assume a key role in a new provisional government that the conspirators wanted to establish after they had launched their armed revolt.

Soon after his arrival General Phillips sallied out from Portsmouth, went up the James River burning and plundering on both banks, carried off the negroes and shipped them to the West Indies, destroyed the magazines at Manchester, under the nose of Lafayette, who remained on the north side of the river, and on the 9th of May took possession of Petersburg, where his army was to make a junction with that of Lord Cornwallis, advancing from Wilmington.

Morse to witness a test of his newly invented electric telegraph, a connection for which had been set up between Baltimore and Washing Dolley in a Matthew Brady daguerreotype of about 1848, and her home on Lafayette Square.

The mediating, symbolic history of Lafayette could therefore link politics and culture as well as nations or historical eras or generations.

Sheridan then eulogised Lafayette, Bailly, and other patriots of that stamp, and vehemently defended the general views and conduct of the national assembly.

Jonnie and Katie sent postcards home to their mother, then went with Iris and Doris to buy a present for her at the huge Galeries Lafayette the venerable Paris department store.

As for her job experience, she claimed three years at the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, a store she had been in many times, though always as a shopper, never as a salesgirl.

The desk was of no polished stone nor rare wood intricately inlaid but was just a desk and the man was just a man: the suit looked Galeries Lafayette rather than Lanvin.

Lafayette along to help enter-tain two foreign visitors, a young Englishman, Samuel Romilly, and a Genevan, Etienne Dumont.

Lafayette, Indiana, established that Marty Rabb had in fact lived there and that his parents still did.

Jefferson, Franklin, Jackson, Lafayette, Yampa, San Juan, Lula, Arapahoe, Tahosa and Idaho.

The only reason we won in Iowa is that I put the two Peace Democrat editors in Fort Lafayette for seditious agitation.

The Ft. Greene Project runs from Park Avenue to Lafayette Avenue, surrounding Washington Park.