Lecture – Eighteenth Century France and the American Experience
Lecture – Eighteenth Century France and the American Experience
This event is online-only! Visitors may attend virtually on Zoom. Registration is required. Log-in information provided at registration. In recognition of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824 tour of America James Taub, Associate Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution, will examine how French service in the colonies influenced the future of the empire. We often talk of the French Military during the American Revolutionary War through the lens of Rochambeau and his troops. However, the service of his ‘Expédition particulière’ was a drop in the bucket of the experience of French arms during the years following the Seven Years Read More