- Author
- Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
- Date of Publication
- 1901
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L'Enfant, a Frenchman, and a kinsman
of D'Estang (the French Admiral), was
a skilful military engineer who had
come to America in April, 1777, in the
train of Lafayette. He devoted the
spring and summer of 1791 to elabor-
ating his plans for the projected city.
One point he quickly settled—he would
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