CANANDAIGUA, NY — A brass band, “crowds of men, women and children” and “carriages loaded with ladies and gentlemen” waited on Main Street, Canandaigua for Marquis de Lafayette to arrive. Then, off to ...

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 held at ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the greatest heroes in America’s fight for independence, began a 13-month “Guest of the Nation” tour of all 24 states. Following a congressional ...

GREENWICH — The Marquis de Lafayette was a young man when he left France to fight in America's Revolutionary War. Decades later, he was invited back to see the nation he helped create, including a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Portrait of the marquis by Samuel F. B. Morse. This week, in case you hadn’t noticed the ...

As Georgia commemorates the bicentennial of General Marquis de Lafayette’s grand tour of the United States, it is imperative to honor not only the celebrated French general but also the unsung African ...

Aug. 22—NORWICH — Sporting a top hat, leaning on a walking cane and speaking with a thick French accent, the Marquis de Lafayette recalled famous and obscure exploits in the American Revolutionary War ...

An exhibit celebrating the life of the Marquis de Lafayette opened this month at the Hagen History Center's Watson-Curtze Mansion. The traveling "Guest of the Nation" exhibit by the American Friends ...

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 ...