Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Lafayette for Marquis de Lafayette.
USS Lafayette (1848), was built in 1848 as Aleck Scott, and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamed Lafayette on 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold
USS Lafayette (AP-53), was launched as the French-built Normandie and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant and then struck in 1945
USS Lafayette (SSBN-616), was the lead ship of the Lafayette-class submarines, commissioned in 1963, and decommissioned in 1991
USS Lafayette (FFG-65), a planned Constellation-class frigate
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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Principal author
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
American Revolution
French frigate Hermione
Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Gloucester
Valley Forge
Battle of Barren Hill
Battle of Rhode Island
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Green Spring
Siege of Yorktown
Franco-American alliance
French Revolution
Assembly of Notables (1787)
Estates General of 1789
National Guard (France)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Women's March on Versailles
Society of 1789
Fête de la Fédération
Day of Daggers
Champ de Mars massacre
War of the First Coalition
July Revolution (1830)
Other events
1824–25 Grand Tour of the United States
New York City parade
Philadelphia parade
USS Brandywine
Life
Château de Chavaniac (birthplace and home)
Château de la Grange-Bléneau (home and museum)
Lafayette Land Grant
Picpus Cemetery
Honors and memorials
List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Lafayette, Louisiana
Fort Lafayette
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania
Lafayette College
New York City statue (1876)
LaFayette Fountain (1887)
Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
1891 statue
Lafayette Square Historic District
Lafayette dollar (1899)
Mount Lafayette
Lafayette Memorial (1917)
Lafayette College statue (1921)
Los Angeles statue (1937)
Lafayette Escadrille
USS Lafayette
Legacy
1825 Samuel Morse painting
"Lafayette (We Hear You Calling)" (1918 song)
La Fayette (1961 film)
Valley Forge (1975 film)
La Révolution française (1989 film)
Jefferson in Paris (1995 film)
Liberty! (1997 documentary miniseries)
Liberty's Kids (2002 television series)
Hamilton (2015 musical, 2020 film)
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (2015 book)
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (2021 book)
Franklin (2024 miniseries)
Family
Adrienne de La Fayette (wife)
Georges Washington de La Fayette (son)
Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (father)
Related
Order of Lafayette
Honorary U.S. citizenship (2002)
List of ships with the same or similar names
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ships in the United States Navy have been named USSLafayette for Marquis de Lafayette. USSLafayette (1848), was built in 1848 as Aleck Scott, and purchased...
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launching. USS LST-1 USS LST-2 USS LST-3 USS LST-4 USS LST-5 USS LST-6 USS LST-7 USS LST-8 USS LST-9 USS LST-10 — converted to USS Achelous (ARL-1) USS LST-11...
Squadron 16 (SUBRON 16) to Rota on 28 January 1964 and embarked upon USS Proteus. USSLafayette completed its first Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) deterrent patrol...
1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne...
USSLafayette County (LST-859) was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after counties in Arkansas...
volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1917, the...
United States Navy USS Constellation (FFG-62), on order USS Congress (FFG-63), on order USS Chesapeake (FFG-64), planned USSLafayette (FFG-65), planned...
boats of a class are noticeably similar. Experimental use: an example is USS Albacore (AGSS-569), which used an unprecedented hull design. In this list...
name was later given to the USSLafayette, the lead ship of the Lafayette Class of ballistic missile submarines. The Lafayette Escadrille was an escadrille...
Scott (1906–1978), British horse rider Aleck Scott, a steamer renamed USSLafayette This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
brigades of John Glover and James Mitchell Varnum) led by the Marquis de Lafayette. News of the French involvement rallied support for the cause, and militia...
on Pier 94. Pier 86, once used by United States Lines, is now home to the USS Intrepid, which is now part of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. In 2003...
December 1941, Attacked and sunk by enemy Japanese aircraft, 328 dead. USSLafayette (AP-53), formerly SS Normandie, 9 February 1942, at dock while being...
wiped out KPA batteries on the right flank of Red Beach. Three (USS King County, USSLafayette County, and LST 973) of the eight LSTs took some hits from mortar...
Philadelphia parade USS Brandywine Life Château de Chavaniac (birthplace and home) Château de la Grange-Bléneau (home and museum) Lafayette Land Grant Picpus...
7 – Lafayette leaves Washington, D.C., en route to France on the frigate USS Brandywine. Fayetteville, North Carolina was named after Lafayette. The...
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