Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon. So passionate was the Marquis de Lafayette to join the fight for ...

The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York. The Marquis de Lafayette ...

As the bicentennial nears of Marquis de Lafayette’s return to the young country he fought for as a teenager, the onetime French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army is the talk ...

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England. Lafayette had returned to ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette presented a walking cane to then-Governor Walter Leake. If you head over to the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, you can see it for ...

Tom Milhollan, director of operations and development for the Washington County Historical Society, places a chair used by Marquis de Lafayette, which he sat in during his farewell tour through the ...

GALLIPOLIS, OH (WOWK)- It has been 200 years since Revolutionary War Hero Marquis de Lafayette stepped foot in Gallipolis, Ohio, as a part of his farewell voyage tour across the then 24 states in ...

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.

If your quilting time is less fruitful, visit the Baldwin-Reynolds House Museum on Terrace Street to feast your eyes on the quilt display based on an orange peel that Marquis de Lafayette ...

In the United States, however, the Marquis de Lafayette is remembered as a national hero. His legacy is honoured in museums, schools, and public monuments, largely because of his pivotal role ...