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Turn: Washington's Spies (originally titled Turn and stylized as TURŠ: Washington's Spies) is an American period drama television series based on Alexander Rose's book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007), [3] a history of the Culper Ring. [4]
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Sarah Vowell [1] about the travels of the American and French revolutionary Marquis de Lafayette in early America. See also
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution is a 2021 biography of Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette by American history podcaster and author Mike Duncan. It covers Lafayette's life and times and the significant role he played in the American Revolution , French Revolution , and July Revolution of 1830 .
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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.
Sources differ as to whether James A. Lafayette died in Baltimore or New Kent County in 1830 (the year he picked up his last pension payment), [1] or in Virginia in 1832. [2] During his lifetime, James's heroism was mentioned in a two-volume book of historical fiction by James E. Heath, Edge Hill: or the Family of the Fitz Royals.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Since 1957, traffic on Third and Fourth streets in downtown Lafayette has run one direction, dating back to when U.S. Highway 231 ran through the downtown area.
André-Nicolas Levasseur (also known as Auguste Levasseur) was a 19th-century French writer and diplomat known in the United States for accompanying the Marquis de La Fayette during his last trip to the Americas and in the Caribbean and Mexico for his involvement in French imperialism.