James Madison Porter (1793-1862) was born in Montgomery County, but his real career and reputation were made in Northampton County. A prominent attorney, he was Secretary of War in the ...

Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon.

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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The nineteen-year-old Marquis de Lafayette left France in 1777 and crossed the Atlantic to support the American ...

Two hundred years ago in Lancaster, that was the news of the year. It was 1825 and the Marquis de Lafayette had embarked on his farewell tour of America. A French aristocrat, Lafayette was better ...

In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving Major General of the Continental Army, visited Pittsfield during his 6,000-mile tour of all 24 states at the invitation of President John Quincy ...

The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York.

Ahead of anniversary events marking the bicentennial of Lafayette's farewell tour of the US, a new book looks back at the war hero's time here.

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England.

A relative of the Marquis de Lafayette and the man himself — so to speak — paid a personal visit to Lexington on the bicentennial of his famed trip through the city.

The 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Lexington and other communities is being marked by a number of events in the coming days.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The “American Friends of Lafayette” gathered in Louisville Monday, May 12 for a celebration of the Marquis de Lafayette, a key figure in the American Revolution. Two hundred ...