Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lafayette left France on the American merchant vessel Cadmus, on July 13, 1824, and his tour began on August 15, 1824, when he arrived at Staten Island, New York.He toured the Northern and Eastern United States in the fall of 1824, including stops at Monticello to visit Thomas Jefferson and Washington, D.C., where he was received at the White House by President James Monroe.
Pilots of SPA 124 Escadrille Lafayette at Chaudun, France, July 10, 1917. Walter Lovell (September 9, 1884 – September 10, 1937) was a World War I volunteer pilot and an American serviceman.
U.S. Postage Stamp, 1957 issue, 3c, commemorating 200th anniversary of the birth of La Fayette The 1899 Lafayette silver dollar, designed by Charles E. Barber, honors Lafayette and George Washington and is the only U.S. commemorative silver dollar prior to 1983.
Tri-State Crematory scandal; Date: February 15, 2002 (): Location: Noble, Georgia, United States Coordinates: Cause: Failure of perpetrator to cremate bodies: Arrests ...
Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette) Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights Movement; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked closely throughout the 1960s movements with groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...
"Only a soldier's blanket! Make haste and return it to him at once." [4]— Ralph Abercromby, Scottish soldier and politician (28 March 1801).Wounded at the Battle of Alexandria, he asked what had been placed under his head and was told it was "Only a soldier's blanket."
Lafayette M. Hershaw (May 10, 1863 – September 2, 1945) was a journalist, lawyer, and a clerk and law examiner for the United States General Land Office of the United States Department of the Interior.
The Apprentices' Library Association in 1825. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York, the second of nine children of Quaker parents Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [7] of English and Dutch descent respectively. [8]