That would be Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. When he came back to American on what amounted to a farewell tour in from 8/1824 - 9/1825 he had 10 square feet of soil dug up from Breeds Hill and put in his ship as ballast. When he died in 1834 he was buried in that soil. A US flag still flies above his grave and was the only US flag to fly in Paris during the German occupation of WWII.
This past summer a group of American Revolution re-enactors visited the grave and placed a wreath in his honor.
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