Marquis de Lafayette

Marquis de Lafayette was an aristocratic Frenchman who served as a volunteer Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The French and British fought many wars during their history for various reasons. Lafayette’s father died during one ...

Marquis de Lafayette

Front Plaque

French Statesman

Friend of the American Revolution

“...The new County so to be formed be called Lafayette or Fayette County to perpetuate a remembrance of his virtues and philanthropy through future ages of our political existence...” Petition to the General ...

Marquis de Lafayette Encampment

Marquis de Lafayette

1757 1834

General in the Continental Army

Camped Here With 2800 Troops

Enroute to Rhode Island

July 26 and 27, 1778

dedicated here by

CT Society Sons of the American Revolution

General David Humphries Branch

and

The East Haven Historical Society

1996

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Maj. Genl. Marquis de Lafayette

In honor of

Maj. Gen’l. the Marquis

de Lafayette

who was ill many weeks in the

Brinckerhoff House adjoining

during the

American Revolution

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This stone given by

Lafayette Post

No 140 Dept of N.Y. G.A.R.

to Melzingah Chapter D.A.R.

May 30, 1896.

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On this knoll stood

the Middle Church (Presbyterian)

built 1747, rebuilt 1830, ...

General Marquis de Lafayette 1757 - 1834

Member Society of the Cincinnati of France. Presented jointly by the State Society of the Cincinnati and the City of York, Pennsylvania, this day January 27th 2007.

"Serving America is to my heart an inexpressible happiness"

General Marquis de Lafayette

Marker is at ...

Marquis de Lafayette and His Division

1781 Siege of Yorktown

“Here we are at last … before Yorktown, and our operations will soon be noisy.”

Marquis de Lafayette, Camp before Yorktown, September 30, 1781

In April 1781, with a developing British military campaign in Virginia, Washington sent the Marquis ...

The Marquis de Lafayette

This monument was erected and presented by

Henry Harteaua distinguished citizen of Brooklyn to be an enduring tribute to the memory of one who as friend and companion of the immortal Washington fought to establish in our country those vital principles ...