Against the wishes of his family and the French crown, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834), financed a ship and crossed the Atlantic to join our cause.

This coming Thursday is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when thousands of troops landed on the French beaches in Normandy, a turning point of World War II. The invasion was supported ...