Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Another change was made on November 10, 1963, when Broadway became one-way southbound from Herald Square to Madison Square ( 23rd Street ) and Union Square ( 14th Street ) to Canal Street, and two routes — Sixth Avenue south of Herald Square and Centre Street, Lafayette Street, and Fourth Avenue south of Union Square — became one-way northbound.

It was located on East Lafayette, then called Champlain Street, between Helen and East Grand Boulevard, near Belle Isle.

Lafayette believed the Orleanist constitutional monarchy was the safest course for the propertied interests and so Lafayette and Thiers became supporters of the Orleanist " Citizen King "-- Louis-Philippe.

He was educated at Lafayette High School in Buffalo, where he received training from long-time art teacher Elizabeth Weiffenbach.

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 Ronald Hubbard was born in 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska.

However, contemporary records show that his grandfather, Lafayette Waterbury, was a veterinarian, not a rancher, and was not wealthy.

Among the most publicised productions of the 20th century was mounted by the Federal Theater Project at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem from 14 April to 20 June 1936.

A somewhat similar hypothesis was advanced by astronomer John J. Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2002.

Columbushaus was the result of a plan by the French retail company Les Galeries Lafayette, whose flagship store was the legendary Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to open a counterpart in Berlin, on the Grand Hotel Belle Vue's former site, but financial worries made them pull out.

* His son Peyton Randolph, Jr. ( Virginia, 1739-Virginia, May 16, 1784 ) was a Major in the American Revolution and aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Lafayette and married ( 1763 ) his first cousin Lucy Harrison ( Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (?

The term rheology was coined by Eugene C. Bingham, a professor at Lafayette College, in 1920, from a suggestion by a colleague, Markus Reiner.

Van C. Smith was the son of Roswell Smith, a prominent lawyer in Lafayette, Indiana, and Annie Ellsworth, daughter of U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth.

Morse was honored to paint the Marquis de Lafayette, the leading French supporter of the American Revolution.

This message ( quoting Numbers 23: 23 ) was chosen by Annie Ellsworth of Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth.

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

The so-called " Zalinsky boat " was constructed in Hendrick's Reef ( former Fort Lafayette ), Bay Ridge in ( ray ) or ( rayacus the 3rd ) New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Lafayette was elected to represent the nobility ( Second Estate ) from Riom in the Estates General.

elected in 1983 as the first woman legislator from the city of Lafayette, she served five years in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Young Bradley attended Rosemont Elementary School, Lafayette Junior High School and Polytechnic High School, where he was the first black to be elected president of the Boys League and the first to be inducted into the Ephebians national honor society.

Prentiss Lafayette Walker ( August 23, 1917-June 5, 1998 ) was the first Republican in the 20th century to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi.

" In that same election, Hayes ' former rival, David Thibodaux, was first elected without opposition to the Lafayette Parish School Board.

* 1959 – Dud Lastrapes of Louisiana, as a television anchorman long before he was elected mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana in 1980

In 1895 he retired from teaching to engage in farming in Lafayette County, Mississippi ; and while residing there he was elected county superintendent of education in 1898 for a four-year term.

He was elected to the state legislature in 1904 and after serving for one term as a member of the House of Representatives, he was elected to represent Lafayette County in the state Senate in 1906, followed by reelection.

* Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce

With the Bourbon Restoration, Lafayette became a liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1815, a position he held until his death.

Lafayette spoke for the last time in the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1834.

The stadium was first proposed in 1978 by the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, then headed by journalist Ron Gomez, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980-1989.

Lafayette delivered a speech before a meeting in the House Chamber on 10 December 1824.

* Page Cortez ( born 1961 ), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette

Portraits display Washington and Lafayette in the chamber of the U. S. House of Representatives.

Treen worked with the Lafayette delegation, including Representatives Mike Thompson and Ron Gomez, for construction of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin ' Cajuns stadium, the Cajundome.

Representatives of the Lafayette and Rochambeau families also attended.

* 1994 – Ron Gomez, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette switched to Republican after unsuccessful campaign for Mayor of Lafayette in 1992

After a time he moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where he worked as the assistant clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1831 – 32, moving up to the full clerkship in 1832-35.

In the spring of 1966, he worked for the election of the late Roderick Miller of Lafayette as only the third Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

The Marquis de Lafayette, the French general and Revolutionary War hero, was the first foreign dignitary to address the House of Representatives.