2-329-811 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Marquis de Lafayette laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument, 1825 (c1880). The monument, built between 1825 and 1843, commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought in 1775 on the outskirts of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette fought on the American side during the war. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.