Of course Americans celebrate Independence Day as opposed to Yorktown Day. Who wants to barbecue a hot dog and ponder how we owe our independence to the French navy? Who wants to twirl sparklers and dwell on how the French government's expenditures in America contributed to the bankruptcy that sparked the French Revolution that would send Rochambeau to prison, Lafayette into exile {then prison}, and our benefactor His Most Christian Majesty Louis XVI to the guillotine.
( Sarah Vowell )
[ Lafayette in the Somewhat ]
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