October 19, 1824 to October 27, 1824

NORFOLK CITY, Virginia

Arts/Leisure, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War

Although a Frenchmen, the Marquis de Lafayette was a man dear to the hearts of many Americans in the early nineteenth century. He led American troops into battle during the Revolution, had sustained a wound at the Battle of Brandywine, and was instrumental in encouraging the participation of the French forces in the siege of Yorktown which led to the surrender of the British in 1781. Lafayette was...