Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette — also known as the Marquis de Lafayette — had been invited by President James Monroe to return to America for a tour in hopes the ...

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 ...

Just the year before, Keeler, a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army Corps of Light Infantry, had been presented with an engraved ...