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...

The Marquis de Lafayette

 came from France to fight

in the Revolutionary War.

He was sent to Yorktown

with troops to fight the

British under General

Cornwallis.

Baron von Steuben, from

Germany, was named 

Inspector General of 

the Continental Army.

The trained volunteers

to fight as an army.

General Rochambeau brought

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

the victory at Saratoga &

oversaw the building of

fortifications at West Point 

during the Revolutionary War. 

Andrew Jackson Monument

in Lafayette Park

He commanded troops

in the War of 1812.

Union General McPherson

commanded troops at the

Civil War Battles of Shiloh,
Corinth & Vicksburg.