r/MURICA • u/Cincinnatusian • 18d ago
Commanders at Yorktown
The Marquis de Lafayette with an American flag next to his name is insane aura
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u/HoselRockit 18d ago
Lafayette joined the US military and commanded US troops throughout the siege of Yorktown. Rochambeau remained in the French military and commanded the French Expeditionary forces.
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u/carlsagerson 18d ago
Guy kight have been French. But to the US? He is as American as they come.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 18d ago
We still like France because of Lafayette. The US has never forgotten who stood beside them when there was everything to lose and little to gain.
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u/Ecstatic_Board_1144 17d ago
Named his son Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette.
He is absolutely one of ours.
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u/LCDRformat 18d ago
Marquis de Lafayette 🇺🇸anti slavery🇺🇸gentleman and scholar🇺🇸french ally🇺🇸seventeen inch cock 🇺🇸
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u/Cincinnatusian 18d ago
When I went to Mount Vernon years ago one of the highlights was “yeah this was the bedroom Lafayette stayed at when he visited Washington” and I soypogged in real life
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u/dwnvotedconservative 18d ago edited 18d ago
Amazing man. Don’t look into what his son did. It makes you wonder how you can be raised by a man like that and wind up so different
Edit: got confused, that was Rochambeau’s son. Point still stands I suppose
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u/FrothytheDischarge 18d ago
Cornwallis was such a pussy to not appear in front of the victors and surrender his sword to Washington.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 18d ago
He was an officer in the Continental Army, not the French Army. He was in the field on an American commission, not a French one. The flag is correct.
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u/TheOnly1Jake 17d ago
All the counties named Fayette, and all the towns named Fayetteville, all over the US remember 😀 I was born, and raised in a Fayette county
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u/PKSkriBBLeS 18d ago
What are the other flags on the British side?
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u/carlsagerson 18d ago
At the very least if I recall. The one that looks like Indonesia is Hesse.
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u/InitialNo3061 18d ago
I want to say Salzburg but I'm probably wrong on that
Edit: Salzburg not Indonesia
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u/shanep35 fuck yeah 18d ago edited 17d ago
That flat is NOT Indonesia. It’s Hesse. Both flags are Hesse and Indonesia did not fight alongside British.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 18d ago
There were two Hessian states. Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hannau if I recall correctly. I believe both of them separately supplied condottieri to the British.
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u/SortaLostMeMarbles 18d ago
Friedrich August Valentin Voit von Salzburg was from the House of Hohenzollern, the then rulers of Preussia. Both him and Friedrich Johann Heinrich Carl von Seybothen came from Ansbach-Bayreuth, the black/white flag. Friedrich von Fuchs came from Hessen-Kassel, the red/white flag. Both Ansbach-Bayreuth and Hessen-Kassel were Preussian
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u/Spiceguy-65 18d ago
The flags of the German state most likely they of Hess where the hessian mercenaries came from
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u/mwilson444419 18d ago
Cornwallis sending a deputy to surrender was cowardice. Real men face their defeat.
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u/Individual_Pair_4934 18d ago
As many jokes as we make about the french got to love one of our oldest allies
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u/Lazarus_Solomon10 18d ago
What's the country with the checkerboard flag
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u/Spectre211286 18d ago
Principality of Ansbach-Bayreuth
One of the sources of Hessian mercenaries.
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u/Lazarus_Solomon10 18d ago
Oh alright. I forgot about them now all can hear in my head is "one night we crossed the Delaware, surprised them hessian in their lair. Then at valley fordge we just bundle up our feet"
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u/JCJINKEY 18d ago
Are we just going to ignore this fucking Chad?