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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
Universal standard of the kings of France from the House of Bourbon: 1643–1715: Royal standard of Louis XIV: 1715–1789: Royal standard of Louis XV and Louis XVI: 1804–1815: Imperial standard of Napoléon I: 1815–1830: Royal Standard of Louis XVIII and Charles X. 1830–1848: Royal Standard of Louis Philippe I: 1870–1873: Imperial ...
The standard flying from the Soleil-Royal at the Battle of Barleur (painted 1693 by Ludolf Bakhuizen) 'Pavillons de France' from 'Le Neptune françois, ou Atlas nouveau des cartes marines' (P. Mortier, 1700).
The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.
Royal standard of the Netherlands. Presidential standard of Nigeria. Royal standard of Norway. O. Royal standard of Oman. P. Presidential standard of Pakistan.
[23] Joan's standard led to the prominent use of white on later French flags. [23] From the accession of the Bourbons to the throne of France, the green ensign of the navy became a plain white flag, the symbol of purity and royal authority. The merchant navy was assigned "the old flag of the nation of France", the white cross on a blue field. [24]
The deputies indicted the general for deserting his command. The King rejected all suggestions of escape from Lafayette, the man who had long presided over his imprisonment. The crowd burnt him in effigy at the Palais-Royal. There was no place for Lafayette beside the republican emblem, nor in the country which had adopted it.