225th Anniversary of Yorktown 

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The links in the schedule below go to photos for that event. Note: DAR = Daughters of the American Revolution         NPS = National Park Service         SAR = Sons of the American Revolution Thursday Oct 19, 2006 [time location - event -------------------------------] 8:00 AM - French Cemetery: memorial service       seven photos       [Alliance Française of Charlottesville VA] 9:00 AM - French Memorial: French Wreath-laying       and Legion of Honor presentations 9:00 AM - Episcopal Churchyard: SAR Wreath-laying       at the grave of Gov. Thomas Nelson       100 more photos       by Robert Yankle [North Carolina Society SAR] 10:30 AM - Yorktown Monument to the Alliance: Parade       (see links under Episcopal Churchyard) 3:30 PM - French Memorial: A new DAR/NPS interpretive marker       at the southern end of the W3R 4:30 PM - Yorktown Battlefield, Redoubt No. 9       Commemoration Ceremony 6:30 PM - SAR Commemorative Dinner (see links under Episcopal Churchyard) Friday Oct 20, 2006 [time location - event -------------------------------] 8:30 AM - Yorktown Battlefield, Redoubt 9: Dedicating new interpretive marker 10:00 AM - Wren Building, College of William and Mary:       Honoring the French who died at Yorktown Oct 20-21 - area around Yorktown       186 photos (in two albums) of the re-enactments       [... Harder] Saturday Oct 21, 2006 [time location - event -------------------------------] Daytime - Military Camp and Battle Re-enactments:       about 50 photos of the re-created       camp 1781 activities and massed re-enactment activities       [www.americanrevolution.org] Evening - Yorktown Victory Ball:       70 photos       of authentically dressed Country English Dancers       [www.EnglishCountryDancing.org] on Oct 21,in Williamsburg VA.

Oct 18: Yorktown Battlefield, Redoubt No. 9 

Re-enactors with flags honor the French regiments who stormed this redoubt 225 years ago.
The French mortar represents the use of the redout after its capture.

A better view of the Royal Deux Ponts Regimental flags

View showing the trench, abatis (the pointed logs), and breastworks which the French troops
had to descend, cut through, and ascend in the face of enemy musket fire and bayonets.

See also description and more photos [Expédition Particulière]

Oct 20: College of William and Mary 

A French navy quartet of coronets, drum and bagpipes played as people arrived.

During the ceremony Serge Gabriel stood with the flag of the Souvenier Francais (left side)
next to the plaque listing the French soldiers who died at Yorktown (right side, larger scale).
Many wounded soldiers died in this building -- used as a hospital -- days after the battle.

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