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To: COBOL2Java

Bullhockey! There were more Frenchmen at Yorktown than there were “Americans”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 06/09/2018 10:54:05 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

On September 26, transports with artillery, siege tools, and some French infantry and shock troops from Head of Elk, the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, arrived, giving Washington command of an army of 7,800 Frenchmen, 3,100 militia, and 8,000 Continentals (at Yorktown) WIKI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown


10 posted on 06/09/2018 11:02:54 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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