President James Monroe invited Lafayette to come to the United States to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Revolution. He was the last surviving general of that war, and his tour was so ...

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 ...

In July 1825, Lafayette and his entourage moved into Lancaster. He stayed downtown at Henry Slaymaker’s Pennsylvania Arms ...

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 ...

An actor will re-create the address the Marquis de Lafayette delivered to the citizens of New Orleans two centuries ago in ...

Alabama is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the state. Lafayette, a French military ...

The stop was one of 100 that Lafayette made across the East Coast in 1824-25 at the behest of President James Madison to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Revolutionary War and to boost ...

Meet Marquis de Lafayette. Not the late historical figure, of course. Michael Halbert is one of several men bringing the Revolutionary War hero to life as part of a 24-state tour that retraces the ...

The sword will soon be replaced as part of a restoration project by the Sons of the American Revolution and Hackensack.