The Frenchman who may be the original American superhero will return to New Hampshire this weekend, marking the bicentennial of his Farewell Tour of the United States. The Marquis de Lafayette, ...

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 ...

At the invitation of President James Monroe, the Marquis de Lafayette — Gen. Lafayette — returned to the United States as an honored guest more than 40 years after the Treaty of Paris recognized the U ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTOC) - Over 200 students and people from around the Beaufort area gathered to recognize the 200th anniversary of Marquis De Lafayette coming to the Lowcountry. “Today, we are ...

“Americans don’t in the least know who Lafayette was. The story has been lost in the telling,” says Laura Auricchio, author of a new biography, The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered. The Marquis de ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the greatest heroes in America’s fight for independence, began a 13-month “Guest of the Nation” tour of all 24 states. Following a congressional ...

The 1825 banquet was laid out on a 170-foot table shaded by a canopy of British flags captured in the Battle of Lake Erie. Lafayette was moved by the accounts of the battle and viewed War of 1812 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Maquis de Lafayette visited Beaufort 200 years ago and the Frenchman’s contributions were so significant that the community is celebrating the bicentennial of his trip this ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - 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 ...