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1 day ago · Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French Marquis who became a Continental Army general. Served without pay, brought a ship to America, outfitted for war, provided clothing and other provisions for the patriot cause, all at his own expense.
2 days ago · According to French general Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, white was the "ancient French colour" and was added to the militia cockade to form a tricolour, or national, cockade of France. This cockade became part of the uniform of the National Guard, which succeeded the militia and was commanded by Lafayette.
4 days ago · They wanted to replace the traditional bourgeois militia with an organization that would allow them to resist the massing of regular troops by the King. After 14 July, the Marquis de Lafayette was named the organization’s commander.
1 day ago · As the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette ’s celebrated 1824-25 “Farewell Tour,” of the U.S approaches, The Raab Collection announced that it is offering for sale two Lafayette letters, including one written on that very trip to New York’s Edward Livingston (1764-1836). Lafayette’s great tour began in the city of New York in ...
2 days ago · In February 1795, Monroe used his influence to secure the release of all American citizens imprisoned since the French Revolution and Adrienne de La Fayette, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette. He had already secured the release of Thomas Paine in July 1794 and took him in, but when Paine worked on a diatribe against Washington despite Monroe ...
It didn't happen in London, but Marquis de Lafayette arrived in America with French help for the Revolution in 1777; without which they would not have succeeded. Reply reply ginapaulo77
3 days ago · During the Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette’s army on the way to Yorktown is joined by the Spotsylvania Militia near Ely’s Ford. 1800 A new courthouse is built on the same land near the...
