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 ...

(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 Army.

Two hundred years to the day, Major General Marquis de Lafayette ... American Friends of Lafayette, at the “old tomb” overlooking the Potomac River where George and Martha Washington and ...

For more than a year, the Marquis de Lafayette was received like a “rock star” in every town he visited in America during the ...

The Marquis de ... to draw George Washington into "Purchasing a Small Estate Where We May try the Experiment to free the Negroes, and use them only as tenants." It didn't take, but Lafayette ...

Happily, our English friends had captured ... task of carrying Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, back to America. He was charged with giving George Washington the nation-saving news that ...

In 1777, a passionate young French aristocrat named Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, known as Marquis de ... George Washington. Despite his lack of initial pay and command, Lafayette ...

(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 ... One of ...