North of the White House, there is this statue that caught our attention. We thought it was a statue of George Washington. It was intriguing that one of the figures on the statue would be handing up a sword.
After a little research, we found out that this is a Statue of Lafayette. He is pleading to the French Assembly America's case in the Revolution. The figure with the sword is America, offering his desired role as a military leader. The two cherubs on the other side is the thank you from the US Congress after the war.
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