Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art His ship was greeted at New Point Comfort off Mathews County by a flotilla of steam and sail that escorted the ...

Tom Chesshyre visits Mount Vernon, the preserved home of America's first president, overlooking the Potomac River, 16 miles ...

In 1824, a young Edgar Allan Poe was a part of a junior honor color guard that escorted the Revolutionary War General Marquis de Lafayette around Richmond ... the years when they were with him. Death ...

Explore the unconventional side of U.S. presidents with intriguing facts like George Washington's dentures made of ivory, ...

An inscription tells us it was gifted to the marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American War of Independence ... ‘Of the 794 numbers listed in 1791, only 35 (including about ten portraits of deputies) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...