Thank you for your program. However, I am puzzled by your failure to include any other part of south carolina. What about Charleston Where he was feted for 3 days.? What about Edisto Where he was feted for 2 days where he christened Caroline Lafayette Seabrook..? While in charleston he was accompanied by my great, great, grandfather, Francis Kinloch Huger who broke Lafayette out of an austrian prison in 1794. Why no mention of these hugely important facts? Thank you.A.Elliott Huger Barrow, Jr, Charleston, SC

I lived on ft. Hamilton nice to learn about the history

very interesting ! Thanks !

Très intéressant, merci ! Hoping to see this hermitage during our tour !

Wow fantastic channel. Thank you, subbed!

Good as usual. You always bring forth great nuggets of truth. Looking forward to September 25 in Wheeling, WV.

He is coming to Old Lyme this Thursday! ;)

As a West Point grad, this video is absolutely inspiring. Thank you for sharing the meaningful relationship between West Point, Lafayette, and France.

Excellent presentation today on Fort Hamilton! Thank you!

Merci :o

General Petraeus great Commander and intellectual Man on Art of War and world order

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I'd like to get that shirt you're wearing at the beginning, where did you get it?

Another outstanding video. I have been to Lexington and Concord (1964). "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" has always intrigued and inspired me. My DAR Woodburn Chapter is hosting the 3 area chapters for Flag Day. I am speaking on "Washington's Flag" which is the "Pinetree" or "An Appeal to Heaven". It was used in 1775 by Washington on the 6 schooners he had built. I took mine down to wash it before having it displayed on a stand at the luncheon.

There are several French-founded towns in northern Illinois near Kankakee. The towns are Beaverville, Papaneau, and L'Erab. Some of these towns had French speaking people in the 1970s ... Many people with French names in the area. The bigshot first-family in Watseka was headed by "Sam Martin", named after the patron saint of France, presumably. I think the oldest French church in Illinois, or something like that, exists in St. Anne, Illinois, just south and east of Kankakee along the Kankakee River. Of course, there are many other French-related towns in the area, such as Bourbonnais, Marseilles and Ottawa. Southern Illinois has no monopoly on frogs.

One of my home towns is old ShawneeTown , some of fav memories come from growing up there . Never a ghost town to me. Enjoyed it. Thank you.

On dirait la Camargue en plus petit!😀

I am stunned that the land has sunk so much there is no remains what so ever of Fort Belize. Great work following the trail!

What a poignant piece on how landscape changes with nature over time. River deltas do their work. Things change, especially with the Mighty Mississippi River. Great story.

what is the native language of Julien?

Too bad West Point is now occupied by enemy collaborator forces.

Very interesting information!

Phewwww...the truth in the public record's is about to set eveyone free. New new new's and Re Re Re's make no sense I would be dead before 400 year's a proud slave to anyone and then vote for them while begging them for reparations and to stop killing my kid's. I wll take pride in exposing the black faces behind these pale one's in my family records who took a check to bound my grandpa. I tell everyone to actually go read the Dred Scott case.... because black and white both mean slave in law but everyone would rather keep trying to make sense out of nonsense wondering why the migrants are flooding land and proxy war in Ukrainian is more important than citizens. I take pride in knowing my ancestors played chess not checker's and Trump is an ally fighting a civic case because he secured asset's so we don't have to keep filling Menard's prison. Made sure to look at my white childhood BFFs records to show our tribal correspondence is why we have same nature. I can trace father's record's to Nez Pearce tribe and in Oregon discovered by Spaniards (Dep of Int) who traveled to Bootheel. Took years because per what we were taught I thought they took trail for Gold Rush and I subconsciously practice tribal customs. 1933 Emergency Banking Act.... Seminole War was actually being fought and they est Squatter laws and "Progress" was justification. All of this is County records and National Archives and the treaties are under Iroquois CONFEDERACY. I traced every line and to tribe and only slave was P.O.W. from and Masonic Lodge associated was actually an ally to my ancestor who infiltrated the enemy with a black face. Truth all over STL on buildings in Art Park's abd financial records.

What about Valley Forge?

I'm from Du Quoin illinois....and a bit of a local history buff. Thanks for this video. Can't wait to watch the rest of these videos! Du Quoin is ofcourse a French name. The chief Jean Baptiste Ducoigne was born around 1750 and had a French father and native mother. He was chief of the Tamaroa Indians. They had a winter camp in what is now old DuQuoin along the banks of the little Muddy River. He was also known for helping organizing the illinois Indian confederacy before the battle of the Big Muddy against other tribes. He died 1811/ 1812 is is buried in Kaskaskia. A place were his tribe sold furs and stayed in the summer months. From what I know the site of where he was buried was washed away later in the 19th century...once again. Great video can't wait to watch the rest. Don't know if you've gotten to it yet but St. Genevieve Missouri also is a great little town with a rich French history!!!

Very proud that DAR supported this. Thank you, Julien! Well done.

This was before the Smith, VanDorn Cinton DeWitt Chamber of Bob Barker and SPCA Commerce of the 70's Chevy Chase Drive Van America Washington Machine, on Doplar Dipole Dispersion. This project is not finished yet.

With a focus on Lafayette's military service in the American Revolution and on the strategic importance of West Point at the S curve of the Hudson River in the Hudson Highlands, this video is a valuable resource to help the public understand the many ways the French-American alliance was important then and has continued to be through the following years. Bravo!

Duty-Honor-Country. This video is a very good example of the American history. Thank you for sharing it.

Wonderful segment!! West Virginia's Secretary of State, Lt. Col. Army Retired, Mac Warner is a West Point graduate as are 3 brothers. Mac received his law degree from WVU and was a JAG officer before retiring.

Estoy viendo tu vídeo con tu mamá. Besos😜

Love these discussions! I'm sure Lafayette will proly have places on Mars named after him one day

I'm a native Syracusan (from the South Valley, just a few miles north of the town of Lafayette!), and while I was familiar with the rudiments of the Erie Canal, I was unaware with the particulars, or for that matter the role Lafayette played in developing it. Thank you for this fascinating take on local history, and indeed on the many links between France and early America.

Fantastique! This was a wonderful film honoring Lafayette! My ancestor, Joel Marsh, Esq., was at the first convention in Vermont that enshrined in its state constitution the abolition of slavery. Thank you for pointing out Vermont's long-standing devotion to freedom and equality.

I am so sorry for the butchering of the French language you heard in the way place names are pronounced in Illinois. Waving from Northern Illinois where two French Canadians’ long ago journey is still evident.

I found online years ago a translated diary that LaFayett’s chief aide kept during their U.S. return trip. While in Kaskaskia/Ste Genevieve, he and another comrade ventured out into the wilderness and stumbled across an Indian village of Kaskaskia. A woman approached him and explained she was the daughter of Chief Ducogne (DuQuoin) and that her father was a friend of LaFayette’s and fought with him “back East” during the Revolutionary War. She explained that after the war, LaFayette wrote a document giving DuQuoin and his band of men safe passage as they returned to Illinois. DuQuoin gave it to his daughter on his deathbed and told her the paper carried much magic and that it had helped him many times with white people. She also explained to the aide that she had been raised in the Pierre Menard home. LaFayette’s aide invited her to come to the ball being held at the Menard home and so on that evening she traveled back to the Menard home but refused to enter the house. She protested saying that she dressed as an Indian now and did not have suitable clothes. And so LaFayette went out to the kitchen in back to meet her and to talk about her father. If I can find the online link to the diary, I will post it.

Love her comments about the convergence of genius; Lafayette, De Kalb, Grasse, Polaski, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Washington, on and on. Even Benedict Arnold had his early moments

Glad you noted the importance of the Battle of Saratoga.

The idea of revenge can be seen by the fact that many of the French officers at the battle of Savanna (first French engagement in the American Revolution) were present earlier at the fall of Québec City.

I really enjoy visiting Kaskaskia

Kudos to DAR for sponsoring!

Don't know if you got a chance to visit either one of them during this leg of your journey, but St. Charles (close to the St. Louis airport) and Ste. Genevieve (close to Kaskaskia) both have histories that date back to New France. I don't think either have a Lafayette history but St. Charles has ties to Louis and Clark.

Excellent. A lot of history I did not know. Hope to see you at Units Overseas Luncheon in June.

So thankful for The Lafayette Trail initiative and the expertise and devotion of Julian Icher. He is teaching us our history. Thank you Julian.

Pompeii Fortune was owned by Captain John Buchanan of Winnsboro, a member of George Washington’s 😢staff… when Lafayette arrived in this country he hadn’t a manservant so Captain Buchanan offered him Pompeii with the proviso that he would be a freeman when they returned to Winnsboro. He was given a plot of land with a pond on it where he lived with his family for many years…..when they decided to move to Texas the land was given to the town and became Fortune Springs Park. Buchanan and Fortune traveled TOGETHER to Columbia to visit their old comrade Lafayette, so it was not a surprise that they shared a drink and a conversation……

Lafayette then travels to Richmond after 4 days in Norfolk and Portsmouth. On Nov. 2 he travels to Monticello to see Jefferson. He continues on his travels and returns to Richmond in January 1825. My 3rd great grandfather is sergeant in the Lafayette Artillery militia unit in 1830, named in Lafayette's honor. The unit continues as the Fayette artillery until the Civil War.

Nice! to show how historic research is done! Congratulations.

I cried too 🥲

This is so cool!

Happy to learn more about this today at our DAR meeting. Let’s help bring our country together once again.