Check your history Bro last time we met on the Battlefield your entire Continental army got whupped by the Brits in only 1 hour, then we enjoyed tea in your white house before torching DC and chasing your asses into Virginia
Only 4000 Brits and Canucks saw y'all beat in one hour at Bladensburg. Mind you we did meet ONE Brave Patriotic American who stood up to us, A Mrs Dolly Madison the bravest American of the day ( Her hubby the Prez was to busy borrowing a horse to try and catch up with his fleeing army)
As for the previous fight in the 1770s we were already busy fighting the French, Spanish and Dutch, but in the US it was a FRENCH General called Rochambeau and his 20,000 expert veteran siege troops who whupped us.
and for that we then captured France and flattened Napoleon.
( MarshallRochambeau)
In 1780, Rochambeau was appointed commander of land forces as part of the project code named
Expédition Particulière.
[1] He was given the rank of
Lieutenant General in command of some 7,000 French troops and sent to join the
Continental Army, under
George Washington. In the
American Revolutionary War Rochambeau commanded more troops than Washington did[
citation needed]. Count
Axel von Fersen the Younger served as Rochambeau's aide-de-camp and interpreter. The small size of the force at his disposal made him initially reluctant to lead the expedition.
[2]
Bataille de Yorktown by
Auguste Couder. Rochambeau and Washington giving their last orders before the battle.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by
John Trumbull, depicting Cornwallis surrendering at Yorktown to the French troops of General Rochambeau (left) and American troops of Washington (right). Oil on canvas, 1820.
He landed at
Newport, Rhode Island, on 10 July, but was held there inactive for a year, due to his reluctance to abandon the French fleet blockaded by the British in
Narragansett Bay.
Brown University, then named the College in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, served as an encampment site for some of Rochambeau's troops, and the College Edifice, now known as
University Hall, was converted into a military hospital.
[3] In July 1781, Rochambeau's force left
Rhode Island, marching across
Connecticut to join Washington on the
Hudson River in
Mount Kisco, New York. From July 6 to August 18, 1781, the
Odell farm served as Rochambeau's headquarters.
[4] There then followed the
celebrated march of the combined forces, the
siege of Yorktown and the
Battle of the Chesapeake. On 22 September, they combined with
Marquis de Lafayette's troops and forced
Lord Cornwallis to surrender on 19 October. In recognition of his services, the
Congress of the Confederation presented him with two cannons taken from the British. These guns, with which Rochambeau returned to Vendôme, were
requisitioned in 1792.
