John Lafayette Riker was an American attorney and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Fair Oaks during the Peninsula Campaign.
John Lafayette Riker
Evacuation Day (New York)
Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. In their wake, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to the Battery at its southern tip.
The 1879 painting Evacuation Day and Washington's Triumphal Entry
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in modern Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
Washington's Grand Entry into New York, November 25, 1783 by Alphonse Bigot
Monument in Bennett Park marking the November 16, 1776, evacuation and the November 25, 1783 triumphal entry of the American forces