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Tag Archives: Franco-American
Another American in Paris
So, vacation time rolls around again and this year my family and I had an opportunity to travel to Paris, France for a few days. Riding into the city from Charles de Gaulle Airport, our taxi driver, by chance, took … Continue reading
Posted in Continental Congress, Continental Leadership, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Revolutionary War
Tagged American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin West, British, Emerging Revolutionary War, France, Franco-American, French, Hotel D'York, John Adams, John Jay, Paris, Richard Oswald, Treaty of Paris
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“Our clocks are slow” L’Hermione, Lafayette and the Franco-American Alliance
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
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