Beaumarchais played a crucial role in the American Revolution as a key French ally ... any other European ally to provide aid ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides ... Washington barred the further recruitment of black soldiers, despite the fact that they had fought ...

During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint-Domingue ... economic advantages of working with Louverture. North American policies towards the ...

10 - American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar ... varsity squad is kept on the sideline to see how the second string will play) - Lost. French soldiers, fresh off their four ...

PANO - The historical sites linked to the Capital Liberation Day (October 10, 1954) not only serve as silent historical ...

PARIS -- A new French revolution raged in Paris today and it ... southwest of the Champs de Mars.) French and American forces stabbed into Paris preparing to battle the heavy German forces.

It is the anniversary of the day in 1789 when French commoners ... and scored many victories over revolutionary armies. In response, Paris sent battalions of soldiers known as “infernal columns ...

Smithsonian collections document the patriotic service of African Americans throughout our Nation's history, from the American Revolution up to ... and Culture Photographic postcard of WWI soldier ...

Long Live the Hit King The Republican Revolution Class of ’94 Meets ... has led to the deaths of well over a thousand American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade and a half.

The curator of exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia had ... It was a pen-and-ink sketch of ...

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In 1781, after six years of fighting, the deciding battle of the Revolution was fought at Yorktown, Virginia. Surrounded by American troops and French warships -- Adams had long fought for a ...