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 ...

recalled Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, the Marquis de Lafayette, who was the last surviving major general of the American Revolution, and, at the invitation of President James Monroe and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1824 there was only one subject that Americans seemed to care about: the return visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States for the first time since the American Revolution.

In 1825, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Revolutionary War, President James Madison and Congress invited the Marquis de Lafayette to return to the United States to see what the country ...

FIVE. COOL CANNONS FIRING AND ECHOING THROUGH DOWNTOWN CONCORD THIS AFTERNOON, ALL AS LAWMAKERS AND DIGNITARIES OBSERVE LAFAYETTE DAY AT THE STATEHOUSE. THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE WAS A ...

An interpreter will portray Lafayette in period clothing and language during an event at the Public Landing on May 19, 2025. On May 19, the Marquis de Lafayette will once again stride up from the ...

SALEM — Maj. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette will ride into Salem at 2 p.m. on June 21 as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of his 1825 Farewell Tour of the United States. As part of the ...

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.