This story accompanies the article about Lafayette200 events, "Marquis de Lafayette toured Lancaster 200 years ago." ...

Even though Lafayette contributed significantly to the American victory at Yorktown, government officials did not free him — as they did other Black Americans who served in the war — because ...

Returning to France in 1779, Lafayette convinced the king to send the French fleet and additional troops to support America’s war effort. Back in the United States in 1881, he played a crucial ...

Then he appeared. The Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had arrived once more in Savannah. While this scene could have been out of 1825, it occurred this Saturday morning, March 22.

Remembering the visit of Lafayette to Lancaster in 1825, the Lancaster Lafayette200 bicentennial committee has carefully ...

The Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had arrived once more in Savannah. While this scene could have been out of 1825, it occurred this Saturday morning, March 22.

Thursday's visit marked the exact 200th anniversary of Lafayette's visit to Norwich in 1824 as part of his famous 13-month "farewell tour" of the United States, when he was greeted by raucous ...

History reenactor Michael Halbert brought Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette to life as part of a 24-state tour that retraces the steps of the figure.

NEW KENT — The American landscape is filled with grand stone monuments commemorating war heroes and founding fathers. James Lafayette now stands among those honorees. At a ceremony on Saturday ...