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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Washington, D.C. Has LOTS of Monuments

Eric and I walk and walk and walk in Washington, D.C.  We don't see every monument, but we do visit a lot of monuments.







The statue of John Paul Jones,
Naval Hero of the Revolutionary 
War, stands near the Washington
Monument.









Eric and I just visited his crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.







A monument honoring
Joses Artigas, revoliutionary
leader & father of an
independent Uruguay.








Memorializing the
First Infantry Division
U.S. Army's dead
in Northern France
during World War I.
Participants in the Revolutionary War are honored...






 came from France to fight
in the Revolutionary War.

He was sent to Yorktown
with troops to fight the
British under General







Germany, was named 
Inspector General of 
the Continental Army.

The trained volunteers
to fight as an army.












French troops to fight with
the Continental Army.

He commanded French forces at
 the Battle of Yorktown, the last
 battle of the Revolutionary War.













Polish engineer & soldier,
Tadeusz Kosciusko engineered
oversaw the building of
during the Revolutionary War. 











Andrew Jackson Monument

He commanded troops
in the War of 1812.













commanded troops at the








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