The Bunker Hill Monument, in Boston Charlestown section
“It is with profound respect that I tread upon this hallowed ground, where the blood of American patriots, the blood of {General and Dr. Joseph Warren} and his companions, gloriously spilled, revived the force of three million and secured the happiness of ten million who live now, and of so many others to be born. This blood has summoned the American continents to republican independence, and has awakened in the nations of Europe the necessity of, and assured for the future, I hope, the exercise of their rights."
— The Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) in his speech at the Bunker Hill Monument in 1825 to mark the start of construction of the Bunker Hill Monument, on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first big battle of the Revolutionary War. He is buried under dirt from Bunker Hill in the Picpus Cemetery, in Paris.
