Montery Square 照片檔

Savannah Georgia "nMonterey Square was laid out in 1847.  It was named such in commemoration for General Zachary Taylor"u2019s capture of the Mexican city Monterrey in 1846 during the Mexican-American War."n"nSeated in the center of current day Monterey Square, however, is perhaps one of the most iconic sights in Savannah"u2019s Historic District: a tall, imposing obelisk honoring the General Casimir Pulaski, an eighteenth century Polish immigrant who, at the urging of founding father Benjamin Franklin, fought in the Revolutionary War against the Redcoats. Pulaski would ultimately lose his life in the 1779 Siege of Savannah, but he was so adored by the locals that they wished to honor him in anyway they could.