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 ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The “American Friends of Lafayette” gathered in Louisville Monday, May 12 for a celebration of the Marquis de Lafayette, a key figure in the American Revolution. Two hundred ...

It appears that the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, had the power to cloud men’s minds. That is the only possible explanation for the varied and confused memories of his brief ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - People came together on Sunday for a celebration in Huntsville, honoring the war hero Marquis de Lafayette. He’s the French noble who joined George Washington’s Continental ...

Like many people who enjoy taking a closer look at some of the biggest heroes in American history, Schenectady City Historian Chris Leonard is sometimes a bit disappointed. I remember way back ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Michael Halbert portrays Marquis de Lafayette aboard the Tom Sawyer riverboat during a historical reenactment of Lafayette’s ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — On Wednesday, April 9, the Cabildo State Museum hosted a celebration for the 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette’s 1825 visit to New Orleans. One of the ways the ...

This week we step back in time 200 years to the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans. On April 10, the Cabildo will open a new exhibit, called Bienvenue Lafayette, inside the building ...

Alabama is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the state. Lafayette, a French military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, was widely celebrated ...

Meet Marquis de Lafayette. Not the late historical figure, of course. Michael Halbert is one of several men bringing the Revolutionary War hero to life as part of a 24-state tour that retraces the ...

Savannah celebrated the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette's 1825 visit with a historical marker dedication and reenactment. The event included descendants of Nathanael Greene, whom ...