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Lafayette's American tour

Lafayette returned in 1824 and toured all 24 states over the next year. Newspaper pages from 1824 to 1825 on a map and timeline.

US News Map searches Chronicling America, the Library of Congress collection of digitized American newspapers, and maps every matching page by where and when it was printed. Play the timeline to watch a word or a story move across the country.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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2459 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (678 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-01, page 3

    … on Staten Island, on Monday evening, was announced by the discharge of cannon. Lafayette. —A letter from a gentleman now in Paris, who has lateley visited Fayette, says …

  2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-08, page 3

    … Robert Wain, Jr. Esq. of Philadelphia, has in preparation a Life of the Marquis de Lafayette, to be composed from the most authentic materi als. New Invention. —We have seen …

  3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-10, page 3

    … be sent to France, for the purpose of bringing to the United States the Marquis Lafayette. Yours, &c. FL G. LYFORD. Ji double reacting and self -moving Engine^ James O’Connor …

  4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-14, page 3

    … demands.” Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Philadelphia. Paris, April 27. Gen Lafayette has concluded to go to the United States. The old gentleman says he is at a loss …

  5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-19, page 3

    … literary reputation, scrupulously to ob serve.—National Intelligencer, Marquis De Lafayette. —ln the Legislature of Massachusetts, on Saturday, a resolve, request ing the …

  6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-24, page 3

    … was murlhered with the grief. See what comes of false news, sir. What scenes has Lafayette witnessed anti I been part of since the following was said of him in a Paris paper …

  7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-26, page 3

    … haVe lately requested the President of the United States to invite the Marquis Lafayette to visit this country, and to communicate to him the assurances of a grateful and …

    … animated by the highest esteem for'the public and pri vate virtues of the Marquis de Lafayette—lt is therefore Resolved, That the corporation of the city of New York, acting …

  8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-06-29, page 3

    … This operation will save the city several thou sand dollars annually. Marquis De Lafayette and a Legionary Corps] A number of young men, in the First and Seeond Wards, haying …

    … zette of the 26th inst. suggesting the formation of a Le gionary Corps, in honor of Lafayette, hereby request their fellow-citizens of said Wards, to meet on Thursday, the Ist …

  9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-07-05, page 3

    … on three arches, and is, including the abutments, 1,337 feet in length. GENERAL LAFAYETTE. rhe following well expressed and proper Resolution was introduced into the Board …

    … feelings on all suitable occasions understand ing that it is the intention of Gunehal LAFAYETTE, the associate of our Washington, in the day of our Re volutionary struggle, and …

  10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-07-07, page 3

    … The People ex^ ult in their valor, and the country is exalted by their deeds. 7. Lafayette—-First to seek honor where free dom had rearedits head, and ever true to its cause …

    … is evidence that they have done their duty. By Benjamin Grymes— The Marquis De Lafayette :i May his passage across the Atlantic be as agreeable to him, as his arrival will …

    … call the attention of the National Legislature to the intended visit of General Lafayette, to the land whose freedom he aided I in achieving. By J. M. Moore— Greece and …

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