Lafayette and Rochambeau...

We live near a street called Lafayette.... The marquis de Lafayette was the first person granted a US citizenship in the beginning of the 18th century. He was a general in the American revolutionary war, he was under the commandment of G. Washington and he asked France several times to help the American people. He has fighted at the battle of Brandywine in Delaware state in 1777. He spoke in front of the American congress in Philadelphia. He went back and forth to the US. He is well-known here.