Happy Bastille Day!
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Do not mess with the price of bread in France....
Jyro, are you French? My wife was born and raised in Brest. I love it over there!
Only on July 14th. I use it as yet another drinking holiday.
Thank you, France for then, now, and always, Thank you!
By mid-September 1781, Washington and Rochambeau arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia, 13 miles from the tobacco port of Yorktown, where Cornwallis’s men had built a defense of 10 small forts (a.k.a. redoubts) with artillery batteries and connecting trenches. In response, Cornwallis asked Clinton for aid, and the general promised him a fleet of 5,000 British soldiers would set sail from New York to Yorktown.
With a small force left in New York, about 2,500 Americans and 4,000 French soldiers—facing some 8,000 British troops—began digging their own trenches 800 yards from the Brits and started a nearly week-long artillery assault on the enemy on October 9.
“The heavy cannons pounded the British mercilessly, and by October 11 had knocked out most of the British guns,” the Army Heritage Center Foundation states. “Cornwallis received the unfortunate (for him) news that Clinton's departure from New York had been delayed.”
The successful siege allowed the allies to complete the second parallel trench and “snuffed out the last remains of resistance among the British.” In a final effort on October 16, Cornwallis attempted a nighttime sea evacuation, but he was stopped by a storm.
On the morning of October 17, the British sent forward a red-coated drummer boy, followed by an officer waving a white handkerchief to the parapet. All guns fell silent—Cornwallis had surrendered.
Tobys Notes: To me Italy is the holiest city in the world. Paris is the most beautiful.
The USA the greatest gasp God ever had.
By mid-September 1781, Washington and Rochambeau arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia, 13 miles from the tobacco port of Yorktown, where Cornwallis’s men had built a defense of 10 small forts (a.k.a. redoubts) with artillery batteries and connecting trenches. In response, Cornwallis asked Clinton for aid, and the general promised him a fleet of 5,000 British soldiers would set sail from New York to Yorktown.
With a small force left in New York, about 2,500 Americans and 4,000 French soldiers—facing some 8,000 British troops—began digging their own trenches 800 yards from the Brits and started a nearly week-long artillery assault on the enemy on October 9.
“The heavy cannons pounded the British mercilessly, and by October 11 had knocked out most of the British guns,” the Army Heritage Center Foundation states. “Cornwallis received the unfortunate (for him) news that Clinton's departure from New York had been delayed.”
General Cornwallis Surrenders
Of his 400 infantrymen, Hamilton lost just nine in the attack, with some 30 wounded, while the 400 French-led troops lost 27 men, with 109 wounded, according to Fleming. Surrounded by enemy fire, and blocked from receiving aid by the French fleet that had arrived in Chesapeake Bay, Cornwallis was trapped.The successful siege allowed the allies to complete the second parallel trench and “snuffed out the last remains of resistance among the British.” In a final effort on October 16, Cornwallis attempted a nighttime sea evacuation, but he was stopped by a storm.
On the morning of October 17, the British sent forward a red-coated drummer boy, followed by an officer waving a white handkerchief to the parapet. All guns fell silent—Cornwallis had surrendered.
Tobys Notes: To me Italy is the holiest city in the world. Paris is the most beautiful.
The USA the greatest gasp God ever had.
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My wife is still really pissed off about the Louisiana Purchase.
Hey Low, I'm the French of the gang...
Do you know what they say in France about Bretons? They have alcohol instead of blood in the body ^^
Have taken founding father courses for a long time. I find those men wonderfully intense. Have read an excerpt of President Thomas Jefferson Diary, 2 pages are missing and were found 30 years ago. Seems old Tom sent a "dude" to France to drop into Napolean ear that the USA had enough money to buy Frances interest out. Nappy needing funds for the Russian conquest. Tom had a couple of thoughts on this. Jefferson figured correctly that Napolean would lose in Russia. But the page listing what actions he took to prepare the USA in case Napoloean won the Russian campaign is missing. As you know Nappy took over Moscow but lost his entire army retreating back. Tom Jefferson is a True original American!!! Little know factoid. Jefferson wanted to replace the handshake. Which he saw as unsanitary with a simple small kicking of your right foot up as a non-contact "Hi how are you" gesture. It did not catch on. A mind ahead of its time
Yes, they invented the guillotine too. If you want to see what happens when the blade falls on your neck? The French have it that the body auto falls into a coffin LOL
Don’t piss of the French, they’ll strike, riot, or overthrow the monarchy.
Hamida Djandoubi. Off with his head!
At 4:40am on 10 September 1977 Tunisian born Hamida Djandoubi was executed by guillotine at Baumettes Prison, Marseille, France. He was to be the last person to suffer the infamous fate as the fren…
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