* Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton.

* Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton.

* Lafayette Houghton Bunnell

Dr. Lafayette Bunnell later wrote:

* Lafayette Bunnell ( 1824 – 1903 ), American physician, explorer and author

Lafayette Bunnell suggested the name " Nevada " for the waterfall.

* Discovery of the Yosemite by Lafayette H. Bunnell, ISBN 0-939666-58-8, 1892.

Accounts from the battalion, especially from Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, popularized Yosemite Valley as a scenic wonder.

Lafayette Bunnell, the doctor of the Mariposa Battalion, wrote that " Ten-ie-ya was recognized, by the Mono tribe, as one of their number, as he was born and lived among them until his ambition made him a leader and founder of the Pai-Ute colony in Ah-wah-ne.

* Discovery of the Yosemite by Lafayette Bunnell contains most of what we know about Chief Tenaya

Yan-o-pah ( little cloud ) was the local name of the fall before it was named " Vernal " by Lafayette Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Brigade in 1851.

* Discovery of the Yosemite ( 1892 ) by Lafayette H. Bunnell

pt: Lafayette Bunnell

In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

The visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the U. S., in 1824 – 25, was in every sense a triumphal procession.

General Lafayette returned to visit Virginia during his grand tour of the United States in 1824 and 1825.

On November 2, 1824, General Lafayette " left Richmond on his way to Monticello to visit Mr. Jefferson.

Violet Bank would once again play host to Lafayette in 1824, when he visited the country for the last time as an official guest of the United States.

Lafayette County was formed on October 15, 1827 and named in honor of Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War and who toured the US in 1824 / 25 upon the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation.

In 1824 and 1825, Wright again visited the United States, accompanying the Marquis de Lafayette during much of his famous tour of the United States.

Lafayette was entertained here in 1824.

* Marquis de Lafayette visited in 1824.

It was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, who visited the area in 1824.

The Town of LaFayette was formed in 1825 from parts of the Towns of Pompey and Onondaga after the Marquis de Lafayette famously toured the United States in 1824 / 1825

The town ’ s name was later ( prior to 1837 ) changed to Fayetteville after the Revolutionary War hero, Marquis de Lafayette who toured the US in 1824 / 25.

Other claims regarding the crack in the bell include stories that it was damaged while welcoming Lafayette on his return to the United States in 1824, that it cracked announcing the passing of the British Catholic Relief Act 1829, and that some boys had been invited to ring the bell, and inadvertently damaged it.

In 1824, President James Monroe invited Lafayette to the United States as the " nation's guest "; during the trip, he visited all twenty-four states.

President James Monroe invited Lafayette to visit the United States from August 1824 to September 1825, in part to celebrate the nation's 50th anniversary.

Lafayette arrived from France at Staten Island in New York, on 15 August 1824, to an artillery salute.

On 17 October 1824, Lafayette visited Mount Vernon and George Washington's tomb.

Lafayette was feted at the first commencement ceremony of George Washington University in 1824.

In his reminiscence of 1873 Israel Jefferson, former slave at Monticello, recalled a conversation Lafayette had when visiting Thomas Jefferson in 1824, " Lafayette remarked that he thought that the slaves ought to be free ; that no man could rightly hold ownership of his brother man ; that he gave his best services to and spent his money on behalf of the Americans freely because he felt that they were fighting for a great and noble principle-the freedom of mankind ; that instead of all being free a portion were held in bondage ( which seemed to grieve his noble heart ); that it would be mutually beneficial to masters and slaves if the latter were educated, and so on.

Lafayette was widely commemorated in the U. S. In 1824, the U. S. government named Lafayette Park in his honor ; it lies immediately north of the White House in Washington, D. C.

The inscription includes: In 1824, Lafayette re visited this grave, and turning away much affected, exclaimed, Ah, that was one of my Generals.

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick's skull ( Photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885 – 1900 )

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

* 1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College ( d. 1862 )

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

* 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986 ), better known as L. Ron Hubbard and often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American pulp fiction author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.

* Lafayette Park – Residential Apartment Complex, Detroit, Michigan ( 1963 ).

* 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square, north of the White House, and built in 1815 – 1816, is the church nearest to the White House, and its services have been attended at least once by nearly every president since James Madison ( 1809 – 1817 ).

200 American volunteers served with the French from 1914 – 16, including the Lafayette Escadrille Luxembourg was occupied by Germany during the war.

* May 6 – Purdue University is founded in West Lafayette, Indiana.

* September 5 – U. S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park, in his first televised speech to the nation.

* August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing in September 7, 1825

* June 13 – American Revolution: The Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina to help the Continental Congress train its army.

A portion of the IND Sixth Avenue Line runs under Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue to just before Avenue A ; there are stations at Second Avenue ( train ) and Broadway – Lafayette Street ( trains ).

* General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette ( 1757 – 1834 ), French general and American Revolutionary War general

* Adrienne de La Fayette ( 1759 – 1807 ), wife of the marquis de Lafayette

* Georges Washington de La Fayette ( 1779 – 1849 ), son of marquis de Lafayette

* James Armistead Lafayette ( circa 1760 – 1830 ), aka James Armistead, African-American Revolutionary War spy

* Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( 1911 – 1986 ), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author and founder of Scientology