Interactive Atlas
Mapping Transatlantic Memory
Two atlases bound into one volume — the park itself, and a world of commemorations stretching from Washington to Warsaw.
Plate I — President's Square
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Lafayette Park
Plan of the Square
Southeast corner
Lafayette
France · 1757–1834
- Military role
- French aristocrat, Continental Army major general, symbol of Franco-American friendship
- Key contribution
- Served as a major general in the Continental Army, became a close confidant of George Washington, and helped cement the French-American alliance culminating at Yorktown.
- Memory & legacy
- Hailed as the 'Hero of Two Worlds.' Towns, counties, parks, and streets across the United States bear his name; his 1824–25 Grand Tour became a defining ritual of national memory.
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