The docents and staff of the American Revolution Museum were all excited over the events, and the recreation of the 200 th ...

The stops Saturday and Tuesday in Petersburg are part of a 13-month tour that traces the exact path, in order, of where ...

On this date, exactly 200 years ago, General Marquis de Lafayette visited Portsmouth, Virginia. It was part of his triumphal ...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette — also known as the Marquis de Lafayette — had been invited by President James Monroe to return to America for a tour in hopes the ...

Just the year before, Keeler, a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army Corps of Light Infantry, had been presented with an engraved ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A treasure of William & Mary — the honorary degree presented to the Marquis de Lafayette — has returned to campus and will be on display in America for the first time since ...

This year’s Yorktown Day celebration also coincides with the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s return to America in 1824 as the “Guest of the Nation,” in which he visited all ...

But substitute his better-known aristocratic title — the Marquis de Lafayette — and many will know of whom you speak, even if they might not know the intricacies of his long, complex and ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, who championed freedom and liberty across the globe. Mrs. Charles Bessonett, who nursed a young ...

The Lafayette Trail has unveiled over 165 historical markers commemorating the 1824 tour in 25 states. Icher thanked the county and Wayne Corry, current owner of Currin’s Tavern, for supporting the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – On this date, exactly 200 years ago, General Marquis de Lafayette visited Portsmouth, Virginia. It was part of his triumphal Farewell Tour of America. Marquis de ...