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Lafayette at Yorktown by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, c. 1783. His enslaver William Armistead was an ardent Patriot, and served as commissary for Virginia's troops in the Revolutionary War. After his father died in 1779, he inherited stores and land, as well as James (who never used "Armistead" as his surname during his lifetime).
26 April: British actor Sid James died at 63 after collapsing on stage at the opening night performance of The Mating Season at the Sunderland Empire Theatre. [22] 10 September: Finnish magician Aimo Leikas accidentally shot himself in front of a crowd while performing his Russian roulette act. He had been performing the act for about a year ...
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
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 ...
Tiger Bech, a 28-year-old native of Lafayette, Louisiana, died as a result of his injuries, NOLA.com reported, citing the athletic director at St. Thomas More Catholic High School where Bech had ...
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. [3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. [ 5 ] He also received the Order of the South award.
Many Desperate Housewives fans are still mourning the death of Mike Delfino, 12 years later. But for actor James Denton, getting shot "was a lot of fun." In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the ...
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.