On Feb. 23, the Suffolk Visitor Center will commemorate the arrival of Lafayette at the site of the former Nansemond County ...

I was asked to do it more and more often until I became the Marquis de Lafayette.” Schneider also speaks French, making his portrayal of America’s marquis even more convincing and authentic to ...

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

Dr. Lloyd Kramer, history professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, spoke about Lafayette’s stance against Napoleon in a lecture at State ...

In late 1824, when Lafayette accepted President James Monroe’s invitation to return to the young nation ... Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette. Sarah Foster, who opened ...

It shows the marquis was still imbued with the fighting ... He was also offered an ambassadorship to America. “Lafayette said no to all of it. No. No way," Kramer said Lafayette did not want ...

On his heralded tour of America in 1824 and 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette passed through York ... this hero of the American Revolution on his return visit. But where this long-ago friend of ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, spend 2025 visiting these 12 Revolutionary War sites in New ...

Due to those factors, Boxwood Hall's guest list reads like a who's who of Revolutionary America. It includes George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette. Visitors can ...