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Grosvenor Square
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Definition:a large garden square in the Mayfair district of London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the surname "Grosvenor".[...]Grosvenor Square was one of the three or four most fashionable residential addresses in London from its construction [in 1721] until the Second World War, with numerous leading members of the aristocracy in residence.[...]Grosvenor Square has been the traditional home of the official American presence in London since John Adams established the first American mission to the Court of St. James's in 1785. Adams lived, from 1785 to 1788, in the house which still stands on the corner of Brook and Duke Streets.During the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower established a military headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, and during this time the square was nicknamed "Eisenhower Platz". Until 2009, the United States Navy continued to use this building as its headquarters for United States Naval Forces Europe.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Ramsey and his charges arrived at the Adamses' house at Grosvenor Square on June 26, 1787.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.103 (2012)
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A Corporal in the American Army, on his way to lunch, saluted a hundred and eleven times on his passage across Grosvenor Square.
A Scotchman in a bomb-disposal squad reached carefully in between two crossed girders and slowly withdrew the fuse of a two-thousand-pound bomb that had failed to explode the night before.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.386 (1948)
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