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Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vireur, Comte de Rochambeau was a French nobleman and commander of a 5,500 man French Expeditionary Force sent to assist the American Continental Army in their fight for independence from Great Britain. Rochambeau arrived in North America with his small force in July of 1780 and encamped in the vicinity of Providence, Rhode Island. After a year of inactivity the French joined forces with Washington’s army and the combined force then marched to lay siege to the British at Yorktown, Virginia. The siege ended as a decisive victory for the allies on 19 October 1781. The surrender and capture of Cornwallis’ army prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict. It was the last major land battle of the American War for Independence.
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U.S. Grant was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Grant entered West Point in September of 1839 and...
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In 1831, William B. Travis, a middling lawyer and failed newspaper publisher, found himself in debt and headed for prison. Instead, he headed to Texas. He purchased land in Mexico’s...
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Twenty-three years after escaping slavery, Fredrick Douglass became this country’s foremost social reformer and moral agitator. Once free, Frederick chose the new surname of Douglass, moved to Massachusetts, and married Anna...
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Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who commanded American troops in the American Revolutionary War. In France he was a commissioned officer by age 13, and in America he was made a...