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Apr 30, 2024 · Lafayette began his tour of the southern states in March 1825, arriving at the Fort Mitchell crossing of the Chattahoochee River on March 31. His entourage was met in Alabama by a military escort and a welcoming party that included former congressman Bolling Hall, John Dandridge Bibb (brother of Alabama's first two governors ), and Gen. Sam ...
Dec 15, 2017 · Accompanied by his Secretary Auguste Levasseur, General Lafayette visited all the 24 states of the Union in 13 months (August 1824 – September 1825). The American experiment narrated by Levasseur was meant to serve as a driver to revive Liberals’ political views at a time when the Bourbon Restoration was stifling liberalism in France.
LaFayette (/ l ə ˈ f eɪ ɛ t,-ˈ f aɪ-/ lə-FAY-et, - FY-, / ˈ l ʌ f eɪ ɛ t / LUF-ay-et) is the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States, 47 miles (76 km) northwest of Columbus, Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 3,003. [3]
Aug 11, 2024 · In 1824, President James Monroe invited the last surviving General from the Revolutionary War, the French-born Marquis de Lafayette, to return the United States to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. Among the 24 states Lafayette visited in over 12 months were Alabama and Georgia. He spent thirteen days in Georgia and nine ...
From July 1824 to September 1825, 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.
The excitement the celebrated Revolutionary War hero’s visit prompted numerous inhabitants of isolated areas of the state to travel hundreds of miles to Montgomery, Selma, Cahaba, Claiborne, and Mobile to see America’s most prominent foreign dignitary.
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Jun 21, 2023 · Located in east-central Alabama on a ridge that divides the Chattahoochee and Tallapoosa river basins, LaFayette was home to senators Thomas Heflin and Claude Pepper, southern humorist Johnson Jones Hooper, NFL player Dave Butz, and boxing heavyweight champion Joe Louis.