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 ...

Two hundred years to the day, Major General Marquis de Lafayette was again honored by admirers when Mount Vernon Estate held a re-enactment of his Oct. 17, 1824, return to George Washington’s home.

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 ...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette — also known as the Marquis de ... Happiness.” Lafayette responded simply: “The City of Williamsburg — May her happiness equal ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, visited Williamsburg as part of a 13-month tour of the United States, and on Oct. 20 ...

A weapon that was used during the Siege of Yorktown will soon be unveiled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Museum of the American Revolution will welcome the sword that was gifted by Major ...