Tag: James Monroe

• Lafayette’s Visit to Clermont

  

  When President James Monroe invited the Marquis de Lafayette to visit America in 1824, he hoped a visit by the last major general of the American Revolution would spark patriotism in the American people. Lafayette saw it as a break from France, a break from the legislature, and a break from King Charles X, who…

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  September 16, 2024

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  1824, Charles Goodwin Ridgely, clermont, Edward Philip Livingston, Harriet Fulton, Henry Beekman Livingston, history, James Monroe, Lafayette’s return to America, Morgan Lewis, Robert L. Livingston, The Marquis de Lafayette