Tag Archives: comte de Rochambeau

A Connecticut Response to the Coercive Acts

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Phill Greenwalt

On December 16, 1773, Bostonians dumped 340 chests holding 92,000 pounds or 46 tons of East India Company tea into the harbor. Due to the distance news had to travel across the Atlantic Ocean and then for the gears of … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilian, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Revolutionary War | Tagged 1773, 17743, 1781, Boston, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, comte de Rochambeau, Connecticut, Farmington, French Army, Intolerable Acts, Lord Frederick North | Leave a comment

Using the King’s Highway to Trap a King’s Army

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Phill Greenwalt

A few weeks ago, heading to the airport after the first Emerging Revolutionary War symposium, fellow ERW historian Rob Orrison made a pit stop in a residential neighborhood in Prince William County, Virginia. To the average traveler to the Ronald … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Preservation, Revolutionary War | Tagged 1781, comte de Rochambeau, Emerging Revolutionary War, George Washington, King George III, King Louis XVI, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Prince William County, Robert Orrison, Siege of Yorktown, Virginia | 1 Comment

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Phill Greenwalt

Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Seigneur de Vauban, and finally Marquis de Vauban, as one of his biographies begins, is probably not a household name to many enthusiasts of American history. Especially since he died on March 30, 1707 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Revolutionary War | Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, comte de Rochambeau, de Vauban, Emerging Revolutionary War, George Washington, Gloucester Point, Lord Charles Cornwallis, siege, Siege of Yorktown, siegecraft, Yorktown | Leave a comment

“Our clocks are slow” L’Hermione, Lafayette and the Franco-American Alliance

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Rob Orrison

With the visit of the L’Hermione to the east coast of the United States this summer, there has been a heightened interest in the Franco-American alliance that won the American Revolution. The French rebuilt the L’Hermione not only for its … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Comte de Grasse, Comte de Maurepas, comte de Rochambeau, Comte do Vergennes, Expedition Particuliere, Franco-American, French, French alliance, George Washington, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, King George III, King Louis XVI, L'Hermoine, L'Hermoine 2015, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Marquis de Lafayette, Morristown, New York, October 1781, Savannah, Siege of Yorktown, Sir Henry Clinton, Southern Theater, Virginia, Yorktown | Leave a comment