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Lafayette Memorial Drive to honor French ally in Yorktown tribute
Historic observances spread to nearly every school with a small admission fee to fund a Lafayette monument. Funds from pennies and dimes will support a $200,000 project to be unveiled in Paris in 1889, honoring Lafayette’s legacy and Franco American friendship.
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de Marquiz
de Lafayette
Yorkcon
Lafayette
Continents
Paris
Republic
Harton
William, B. Allison
Edward Everett Hale
W. T. Harris
Archbishop Ireland
John W. Mackay
Ferdinand W. Peck
Melville B. Stone
Alexander H. Revell
Charles G. Dawes
Robert J. Jampson
Chicago
Cornwallis
Yorktown
United States
Memorial Commission
Washington
Jeferson
Fox
Napoleon
Charles X
France
Belgium
Poland
Switzerland
Great Britain
Congress
Jackson
United States Army
Navy
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