Marquis de Lafayette

LAMB: Where does he get the name Marquis de Lafayette?

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions 1996

For a decade now, historians, architects, carpenters, boat builders, craftsmen and blacksmiths have lovingly — if slowly — sought to recreate the Hermione, the 145-foot, 32-gun, three-masted frigate that in 1780 carried a young French nobleman known as the Marquis de Lafayette on a 38-day voyage to Boston.

08/06/2007 2007

The Marquis de Lafayette was a teenager when he crossed the Atlantic to support the

Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

He ordered the Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding American forces in Virginia, to keep Cornwallis from escaping overland to the Carolinas.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

He ordered the Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding American forces in Virginia, to keep Cornwallis from escaping overland to the Carolinas.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The French Lt. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette observed that Washington rode "all along the lines amid the shouts of the soldiers, cheering them by his voice and example and restoring to our standard the fortune of the fight."

A Medal of Honor for George Washington John White 2012

Before setting out he added brief letters to the copies of the Constitution he sent to Thomas Jefferson, who had gone to Paris as American minister to France, and the Marquis de Lafayette.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Jefferson quietly withdrew, but he returned in early 1786, this time in league with the Marquis de Lafayette, recently returned from America.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

That evening Morris sat down with Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette to consider the most pressing question facing the American government: the prospects for future aid and funding from France.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Washington also expressed fierce affection for the Marquis de Lafayette.

Harvey Wasserman: Don't Ask, Don't Tell If George Washington Was Gay 2010