The American Revolution, History Tour, White House Neighborhood!

Held near the White House, on Independence Week 250, this tour examines the accomplishments of, and crises faced by, the Founding Fathers!
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The American Revolution, History Tour, White House Neighborhood, Washington D.C.

Held around and about White House’s Lafayette Square, on Independence Week 250, this tour will examine the accomplishments of, and many crises faced, by the Founding Fathers. There are dozens of sites near the Executive Mansion linked to Washington,

Jefferson, Hamilton, George Mason, John Adams, James Madison, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, and others!

MEET outside the National Theater, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

Length: 2 hours.

Nearest metros: Length: Farragut North or Farragut West or Metro Center

Discover:

• The man who reconciled Hamilton and Jefferson

• George Mason’s battle against—the U.S. Constitution

• Lafayette’s amazing & perilous associations with multiple American Presidents

• Hamilton's genius successor as America's money man

• Inventor of farm, kitchen, and spy apparatus

• GW's "obstinate Scotchman"

• The longest-serving head of the U.S. Army--and a foreign spy!

• Sally Hemings, Maria Reynolds, Sally Fairfax, Eliza Jumel, Maria Cosway

• John Adams, Lion of the Revolution

• Dealing with America's first pandemics

• “The room where it happened”

• The love child of a French general from the battle of Yorktown

• The secret design of the White House

• The heroic family of the Revolution, and the Civil War

• The hidden life of Washington's drillmaster

• The war hero who betrayed Jefferson, killed Hamilton, and tried setting up his own country!

• The African-American double agent

• The Pirates of the Carib--the Mediterranean!

• Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Eliza Hamilton, Rachel Donelson

• The Revolution's forgotten philosopher-king

• "Lafayette, we have returned!"

• Polish heroes of the Revolution

• How did a junior delegate from Virginia come to write the Declaration of Independence?

• The Forgotten Founder

• The twin families of two Presidents

• The secret life of Washington's drillmaster

• And more!

We’re highly rated on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Your tour guide is a former speechwriter to the President of the United States, a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, & author of the newly published spy novel, set in Georgetown, Femme Fatalité:

https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel-ebook/dp/B0F4945MR5

Also the hidden history of Lafayette Square—The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood!:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Questions?: [email protected], or 703 203 2670

Bring your walking shoes, and perhaps water.

Nearby restaurants for afterwars: Old Ebbit Grill, the Hamilton...

Celebrate America 250 with a deep dive into America's most historic locale.

Think history is boring? Not on our tours!