Black Cockade for a 1775 Tricorn Hat: Sewing Journal
While preparing for our American Revolution Becoming History Presentation, my son requested a new cockade, representing the years before the French Alliance.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: French American alliance
Napoleonic tea, gowns, swords, and gardens: Hillwood Estate
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens exhibit, The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon and 1812, featured two amazing court gowns.
Lafayette’s boot fills with blood at Brandywine
Arriving in Philadelphia to offer his services without pay, 19 year old Lafayette receives his commission to major general on July 31, 1777.
Yorktown celebrates the French-American Alliance Victory
Standing near reserved seating for special guests, we saw many French-American alliance pins, Lafayette scarves, and French- American alliance sashes.
