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  2. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. John J. Pershing - Wikipedia

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    John J. Pershing‘s Address from France. (recorded April 1918) General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), nicknamed " Black Jack ", was a senior American United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I from 1917 to 1920.

  4. Robert Boyd (journalist) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Skinner Boyd (January 11, 1928 – September 20, 2019) was an American journalist who spent most of his career working for the Knight Newspaper Group, spending two decades as the group's Washington bureau chief. He and Clark Hoyt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for uncovering the fact that Senator Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern 's choice ...

  5. Eugene Bullard - Wikipedia

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    Eugene Jacques Bullard (born Eugene James Bullard; October 9, 1895 – October 12, 1961) was one of the first African-American military pilots, [1][2] although Bullard flew for France, not the United States. Bullard was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I, along with William Robinson Clarke, a Jamaican who flew for the Royal ...

  6. Crawford's Defeat by the Indians - Wikipedia

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    Crawford's Defeat by the Indians. " Crawford’s Defeat by the Indians " is an early American folk ballad principally written by Doctor John Knight, [1] [2] survivor of the 1782 Crawford Expedition. The expedition was intended to destroy American Indian towns along the Sandusky River and was one of the final operations of the American ...

  7. James Armistead Lafayette - Wikipedia

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    James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748 [1] or 1760 [2] – died 1830 [1] or 1832) [2] was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation. [3][4] As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold after he ...

  8. John Larroquette - Wikipedia

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    John Bernard Larroquette [1] (/ ˌ l ær ə ˈ k ɛ t /; born November 25, 1947) is an American actor.He is known for his starring roles in the NBC military drama series Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976–1978), the NBC sitcom Night Court (1984–1992; 2023–present) for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards wins for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series during the ...

  9. Jean Lafitte - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island. Battles/wars. Battle of New Orleans. Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". This has become the common spelling ...

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