So passionate was the Marquis de Lafayette to join the fight for independence in the American colonies that — at his own expense, against the wishes of family and king, and without the knowledge ...

Julien Icher, president of the Lafayette Trail, will give a talk at the Erie Canal Museum from 3-4 p.m. on June 7 to discuss the changes Lafayette encountered as he traveled through Upstate New York.

As the bicentennial nears of Marquis de Lafayette’s return to the young country he fought for as a teenager, the onetime French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army is the talk ...

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.

After the war ended, Lafayette toured the new states and territories by traveling the Ohio River on a steamboat. His visit to what was downtown Louisville was in May of 1825. At Monday’s bicentennial ...

Everyone seems to agree that Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, arrived in Cincinnati at noon on May 19, 1825. He was nearing the conclusion of a year-long ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - People came together on Sunday for a celebration in Huntsville, honoring the war hero Marquis de Lafayette.He’s the French noble who joined George Washington’s Continental Army. He ...

This summer Schenectady will mark the 200th anniversary of Marquis de LaFayette’s visit to the city that was part of his national tour marking the 50th year since the outbreak of the American ...

Michael Halbert, right, walks on Saturday, April 26, 2025, with a color guard as he portrays Marquis de Lafayette during a historical reenactment of Lafayette’s visit to St. Louis in 1825.

This week we step back in time 200 years to the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans. On April 10, the Cabildo will open a new exhibit, called Bienvenue Lafayette, inside the building ...

Alabama is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the state. Lafayette, a French military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, was widely celebrated ...

History reenactor Michael Halbert brought Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette to life as part of a 24-state tour that retraces the steps of the figure.