As part of a 6,000-mile national tour, history buffs and revolutionary organizations are retracing the steps Marquis de Lafayette took 200 years ago when the Revolutionary War hero was welcomed back ...

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 Lafayette ...

ON WLKY NEWS AT 11. HISTORY CAME ALIVE ON THE BANKS OF THE OHIO RIVER TODAY AS LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSONVILLE HONORED A REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO. WLKY’S, JOYCE O’LEARY WAS AT THE BIG FOUR BRIDGE, WHERE A ...

On Monday, the historic Lancaster home of a general who served under the Marquis de Lafayette in the Revolutionary War hosted a daylong event marking the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s “farewell ...

The 1825 banquet was laid out on a 170-foot table shaded by a canopy of British flags captured in the Battle of Lake Erie. Lafayette was moved by the accounts of the battle and viewed War of 1812 ...

SOUTH BEND — The Studebaker National Museum presents the program “Hero of Two Worlds: The Life, Times, and Travels of the Marquis de Lafayette” at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 201 Chapin St.

Two hundred years ago in Lancaster, that was the news of the year. It was 1825 and the Marquis de Lafayette had embarked on his farewell tour of America. A French aristocrat, Lafayette was better ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The nineteen-year-old Marquis de Lafayette left France in 1777 and crossed the Atlantic to support the American ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War, an American patriot will finally have a monument ...