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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Officials with the Campus Martius Museum and the American Friends of Lafayette expressed the importance of honoring the visit ...
The Revolutionary War hero visited Erie in 1825 as part of a 13-month, 6,000-mile tour of the young United States.
It's a special day in Fayette County on May 30 and the county recognizes the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Marquis ...