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Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...
A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...
The generals – George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Rochambeau – are credited with sealing America’s independence by defeating Britain’s Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
W hen the National Park Service began looking around for a sculptor to do a new figure for the top of the 97-ft. shaft of the Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington’s victory over ...
The Marquis de Lafayette will soon join an ongoing conversation between George Washington and Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse in Yorktown.A statue of the French military officer will be unveiled at ...
So, in a strange way, this statue of Washington, ... The French won our Revolutionary war for us as it was Rochambeau’s troops at Yorktown that pinned the British army against the French ...
The American Revolution triumphed with Gen. George Washington's victory at Yorktown in 1781. ... in 1792. And then, in 1796, Washington did something ... There is no statue or plaque to mark the ...