On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded ...

Middlebury's existing monument to French Army General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau lies deep in the woods off Breakneck Hill Road at the actual site where the French general, along with 5,500 soldiers ...

The local visits are part of a 13-month, 24-state “Bicentennial of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour” that kicked off last August in ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and ... support to stage a rebellion with the French army lined up to help them out.