In Philadelphia on July 31, 1777, Lafayette met George Washington, then 45 years old, and the two men formed a life-long friendship despite differences in age and nationality.

On June 18, 1825, two-hundred years ago this week, General Lafayette returned to Boston from France to participate in the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the American Revolutionary War, and to ...

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, ... The public thronged to meet the man who had won American hearts in 1777 when, at age 19, ...

Freemasons played a significant role in the American Revolution; George Washington was a freemason, as was Dr. Joseph Warren, ...

Pictured are Mike Lee, portraying the Marquis de Lafayette and Jeff Crossley, Sons of the American Revolution. This evening, Fredonia’s Barker Commons will host a festival and reenactment of General ...

During the predawn hours of June 9, 1825, Clinton Square, in the very new village of Syracuse, was filled with people, probably for the first time. They stood in the fading light of fire illuminations ...

Two hundred years to the day, Major General Marquis de Lafayette was again honored by admirers when Mount Vernon Estate held a re-enactment of his Oct. 17, 1824, return to George Washington’s home.

Matthew Mlynarski, who portrayed Albert Gallatin, was one of the main speakers at the commemorative ceremony for Marquis de Lafayette’s farewell tour on Friday at the State Theatre Center For the Arts ...

Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s 50th birthday.

America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...

I traveled 68 miles, border to border, Vermont to Connecticut, with Berkshire County in between. There were no surprises to ...