Yorktown Day 2024 Host Lafayette with French Flyover
After welcoming Lafayette 1824 style the day before, we returned to Yorktown for the big parade celebrating the French-American Alliance victory.
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Lafayette’s 1824 Return to Yorktown 200th Anniversary
Amidst following Lafayette’s 1824 Grand Tour of America reenactments, excitement built as he arrived in Virginia where he left his greatest legacy.
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.
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.
