Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette was a colonel in the French Grenadiers.
The marquis' wife, Marie Louise Jolie de la Rivière
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789
Battle of Minden
Videos
The Battle of Minden was a major engagement during the Seven Years' War, fought on 1 August 1759. An Allied army, under the overall command of Prussian Field Marshal Ferdinand of Brunswick, defeated a
Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
…La Fayette was a colonel in the French Grenadiers and was a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. On 9 July 1759, he was killed by a cannonball at the Battle of Minden during the Seven Years' War. On 22 May 1754, he married Marie Louise Jolie de la Rivière (1737–1770), the daughter of the Marquis de la Rivière, a rich…
Coloured lithograph of the battle
A memorial from 1859 reminds of the Battle of Minden in the Minden quarter of Todtenhausen