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This is the Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette Memorial in Lafayette Square across the street from the White House in Washington, DC. Lafayette was a French-born aristocrat and military officer born in 1757, and came to America to serve in the Revolutionary War. He became a major-general under George Washington in the Continental Army. Among his Revolutionary War accomplishments, he served and was wounded in the Battle of Brandywine, but despite his wounds he led the Continental Army to victor in that battle. Lafayette also led his men to an impressive victory in the Battle of Rhode Island. Even though Lafayette would become an American citizen, when he died in 1834 he was buried in his native homeland of France, under soil from Washington's grave at Mount Vernon.

The bronze statues of the Lafayette Memorial were made by sculptor Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere in 1890, and has been on the southeast corner of Lafayette Square since 1891.

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I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...