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Portrait of General Lafayette by Samuel Morse in 1826. From July 1824 to September 1825, the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United States. He was received by the populace with a hero's welcome at many stops, and many honors and monuments were ...
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
André-Nicolas Levasseur (also known as Auguste Levasseur) was a 19th-century French writer and diplomat known in the United States for accompanying the Marquis de La Fayette during his last trip to the Americas and in the Caribbean and Mexico for his involvement in French imperialism.
The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited. Marquis de Lafayette still 'rock star' of American ...
The Marquis de Lafayette, accompanied by his son Georges Washington de La Fayette and a personal staff, arrived in the United States at Staten Island on Sunday, August 15, 1824. His arrival was greeted with a thirteen-gun salute from the batteries of Fort Diamond , accompanied by numerous additional cannon volleys from U.S. Navy and merchant ...
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Sarah Vowell [1] about the travels of the American and French revolutionary Marquis de Lafayette in early America. See also
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution is a 2021 biography of Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette by American history podcaster and author Mike Duncan. It covers Lafayette's life and times and the significant role he played in the American Revolution , French Revolution , and July Revolution of 1830 .
The Marquis de Lafayette writes a letter to Uticans, thanking them for donating $974 to help Poland in its rebellion to overthrow Russian rule. Lafayette — who lives in the town of Meaux, just ...