Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the last living major general from the American Revolutionary War, accepted an ...

Calls of “Vive Lafayette” rang out around Whitesboro’s village green as the village welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette in ...

America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...

The Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, will continue his tour today and tomorrow as part of the 200th anniversary of ...

When the Marquis Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette — the French-born general, teen Revolutionary War hero and George Washington BFF — did the same in 1824, there were 80,000. Writer Sarah Vowell ...

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolution, rode through the ...

The French nobleman Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, won scores of American admirers for serving alongside the patriots in the American Revolutionary War. That admiration took many forms ...

Sept. 6 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette — the French hero of the American Revolution and a friend of the Moravians.

The General Richard Butler Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is set to honor a foreign ...

On June 13, 1777, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier — the Marquis de Lafayette — arrived on American soil. He had come for glory. Young, ambitious and more than a little impulsive ...

A combination of mentorship, partnership and friendship, the relationship between founding father George Washington and the young French aristocrat Gilbert du Motier — better known as the ...

The celebrations were held to mark the return of a popular French nobleman to the U.S. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la Lafayette (1757-1834) had fought alongside ...