Unlike many of the other cities Lafayette would have visited during his tour of America, Cahawba was still primarily rugged ...

Savannah celebrated the bicentennial of the Marquis de ... dinner and ball for a veritable who's who of Savannah society. The Committee of Arrangements for the Entertainments of General Lafayette ...

The Hermione, 17 years in the making, replicates the original wartime frigate that ferried the Marquis de Lafayette to America ... north looking for wind. At dinner in the galley, he made a ...

Long before the audiences of the musical “Hamilton” experienced him as the fast-rapping “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman,” the Marquis de Lafayette was a celebrity hero during his ...

Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The Marquis de Lafayette (Sept 6, 1757 – May 29, 1834) was a French aristocrat, military officer, politician and liberal thinker. He volunteered to join the Continental ...