PORTSMOUTH — The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited. A crowd gathered at the John Langdon ...
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 ...
The General Perry Benson Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a special meeting to honor the Marquis de Lafayette, a key figure in the American Revolutionary ...
"The Last Adieu" reminds us that the ideals Lafayette fought for still have the power to bind a divided nation, if we choose to let them.
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 ...
The year was 1825 when a Frenchman named Marquis de Lafayette made his way to Hamburg, S.C. Lafayette arrived once again to the same place to show his appreciation he had for America like he did 200 ...
7. LAFAYETTE COULD SEE THE FUTURE. In the fall of 1824, Lafayette decided to visit his American friends again—his first return trip since his revolutionary days. On New Year’s Day in 1825, Congress ...
Two hundred years ago this month, the American nation, then nearing its 50th birthday, saw the conclusion of an extraordinary moment in its young life: the yearlong national tour of Gen. 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 ...