In 1777, at the age of twenty, the Marquis de Lafayette traveled from France to the colonies to volunteer his services with George Washington’s Continental Army.

The Marquis de Lafayette who first arrived on U.S. soil in South Carolina on June 13, 1777, was an unformed, untested youth of 19. In a way, he had nowhere else to go.

Michael Halbert portrayed Lafayette at Thornbury Farm where British Troops had met on September 11, 1777, for an audience of ...

American Revolution Lafayette's father died in battle when the boy was 2. When the boy's mother and grandmother died, he inherited a fortune at 13.

Gen. George Washington first met 19-year-old Lafayette in a Philadelphia tavern in the summer of 1777, shortly after he was commissioned as commander in chief of the Continental army by delegates ...

Lafayette was at Gen. George Washington’s side from the harsh winter of 1777 at Valley Forge through to the 1781 battle at Yorktown. In 1779, he named his only son after Washington, naming him ...

Frenchman Lafayette fought and was injured at the Sept. 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine and was subsequently recognized as America’s champion and hero for gaining France’s participation in the … ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the greatest heroes in America’s fight for independence, began a 13-month “Guest of the Nation” tour of all 24 states. Following a ...

Recuperating at the home of George Frederick Beckel, from wounds suffered at the battle of the Brandywine in 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette described Bethlehem in a letter to his wife as a place ...

Accompanied by his son, George Washington Lafayette, and his personal staff in August 1824, 67-year-old Marquis de Lafayette arrived in New York City, where he was enthusiastically received.

On Feb. 23, the Suffolk Visitor Center will commemorate the arrival of Lafayette at the site of the former Nansemond County Courthouse on the same route that the marquis traveled in a horse-drawn c… ...