Why Newport, Rhode Island, Scorned the French
One would expect that a country that had been at war for five years would welcome its first ally with open arms. We might…
One would expect that a country that had been at war for five years would welcome its first ally with open arms. We might…
The French army was returning from Yorktown, Virginia in 1782 on their way to Newport and Boston. Lt. Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur…
Louis René Madeleine Le Vassor de Latouche-Tréville (1745-1804) commanded the French frigate l’Hermione which brought Maj. Gen. Marie Jean Paul Joseph du Motier Marquis…
The use of foreign troops in time of war was not an uncommon practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Much as we have…