Traveling up the Hudson River with the Marquis de Lafayette!

  •  3/11/2025 09:40 AM

He was a French aristocrat, who from a young age was drawn to the ideals of The Enlightenment: liberty, constitutional government, and the separation of church and state. The American colonies’ fight for independence appealed to him deeply, and he provided ships, men, money, and materiel to the American cause.