Marquis de lafayette biography wiki
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Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States
–25 tour by Revolutionary War general de Lafayette
From July to September , the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United States.
He was received by the populace with a hero's welcome at many stops, and many honors and monuments were presented to commemorate and memorialize the visit.
Background
Lafayette led troops under the command of George Washington in the American Revolution over 40 years earlier, and he fought in several crucial battles, including the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania and the Siege of Yorktown in Virginia.
He had then returned to France and pursued a political career championing the ideals of liberty that the American republic represented.
He helped to write the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen with Thomas Jefferson's assistance, which was inspired by the United States Decla