Posted on 04/23/2018 11:58:18 AM PDT by simpson96
Thank you
I live about an hour from Chickamuga. If I ever get the time I want to walk the whole battlefield. I was 10 years old when I went to Gettysburg, It is an amazing battle field. It so open it really lets you get a good feel for the battle.
well, sounds ghastly. but I am a picky eater.
The “Narratives of America” books are good historical fiction. “Dark and Bloody etc.” & “A Sorrow etc.” are “popular” (as opposed to academic oriented!) histories. He also did Blue Jacket biography that I have never read, I am told it’s a children’s book. It used to be hard to find.
I grew up in that area so it history is near and dear to my heart!
NO tradition? Flies included, roaches optional?
I went to Chickamauga & Chattanooga parks, and drove around the various spots, and walked, but there was just too much to see to do it only in one day. Another battlefield that is worth the visit is Shiloh, Tennessee. I went there in early December, and the weather was gorgeous...and I basically had the battlefield to myself. I also enjoyed going to Gettysburg in the winter as they didn’t seem to get much snow, and again, the battlefield was basically empty of other people.
“And a “Frenchman,” the pirate Jean Lafitte and his men were a key part of the American defense, so yes it is appropriate.”
They brought the cannon. My pirate ancestor was part of that crew. New Orleans French, family arrived with Bienville. The little town of Buras is named for them.
“Unlike the vast majority of posters here I love France in spite of the fact I’m an Anglophile of Saxon Wessex dna mostly”
Funny, isn’t it. George Washington and the soldiers who fought the Revolution sure knew how much was owed to France. In order to assist us France declared war on Britain, and contributed huge sums of money to us throughout the war. They are in fact our oldest ally.
The victory at Yorktown in particular was courtesy of Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse and the French fleet that defeated the British at the Battle of the Chesapeake and kept the trapped Cornwallis from being rescued.
On the ground at Yorktown itself there were some 9,000 American troops but there were even more French soldiers, over 10,000.
Some of us have French ancestry that goes pretty far back in American history. Huguenots circa 1700 on my dad’s side. French colonials who founded New Orleans on my mom’s. Though most of my lines go back to the British isles.
Macron and wife will eat good tonight!
When I visited New Orleans the food was the highlight. Lordy they know how to cook down there!
Weren’t most of those french soldiers really Germans from Hesse?
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