Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marquis de Lafayette was part French nobleman, part American patriot. (Wikimedia Commons) As the United States approaches the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Milhollan, director of operations and development for the Washington County Historical Society, places a chair used by Marquis de Lafayette, which he sat in during his farewell tour through the ...

Thousands of enthusiastic supporters — Revolutionary War veterans and ordinary citizens — witnessed the return 200 years ago this weekend to Yorktown and Williamsburg of the young French general who ...

The Marquis de Lafayette volunteered his service and assets — his heart and soul — to aid the American Revolution. The starry-eyed young Frenchman was commissioned by Congress as a major general in ...

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 ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, District of Columbia survey, 1993. Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington ...