The Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 was a parade held in New York City on August 16, 1824, to welcome the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette on the occasion of his visit to the United States for a
An account in the Woodstock Observer of Lafayette's arrival in New York.
The 67-year-old Lafayette was so widely celebrated on his arrival in New York that, the New York Mirror wrote, "ladies forget their lovers to dream of him".
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789
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 receive
Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 (New York City)
…Welcoming Parade of 1824 was a parade held in New York City on August 16, 1824, to welcome the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette on the occasion of his visit to the United States for a sixteen-month tour. It has been described as the first triumphal parade in New York history. In 1824 the Marquis de Lafayette was the last living general of the American…
Portrait of General Lafayette by Samuel Morse in 1826
Landing of General Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York, August 16, 1824
Gloves portraying Lafayette, possibly commemorating his visit to the United States in 1824