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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (l. 1757-1834), more commonly known in the United States as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat, military officer, and politician. He...

James Armistead Lafayette (l. c. 1748-1832) was an African American Patriot who served the Continental Army as a spy during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). During the Siege of Yorktown, he infiltrated the British...

"Outlawed in my own land for having served her with courage," the Marquis de Lafayette wrote to his wife, Adrienne, "I have been forced to flee into enemy territory from France...

The Champ de Mars Massacre was an incident that took place on 17 July 1791, when soldiers of the National Guard under the Marquis de Lafayette opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators, who were calling for a referendum on...

The Marquis de Lafayette is wounded at the Battle of Brandywine (11 September 1777), his first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. Line engaving by Charles Henry Jeens, c. 19th century. Special...

Marquis de Lafayette, seated upon a white charger, orders his soldiers to fire on the demonstrators gathered on the Champ de Mars to petition for the removal of the king, under the leadership of the radical Cordeliers...

The imprisonment of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution. By an unknown artist, in the portrait set Madame D'Arblay Diary, 1778-1840 (volume 5, part 2). National Portrait Gallery, London.

The Marquis de Lafayette kisses the hand of Queen Marie Antoinette of France following the Women's March on Versailles on 6 October 1789. An excellent showman, Lafayette always knew how to put on a performance to please...

A portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (center) at the Siege of Yorktown; on the right is depicted James Armistead, an enslaved African American spy who gathered intelligence on the...

The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March or the October Days, was a defining moment in the early months of the French Revolution (1789-1799). On 5 October 1789, crowds of Parisian market women...