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Armand Tuffin: French Ally in America's War of Independence
October 23, 2009
Regine Reynolds-Cornell professor, writer, art consultant

Scholar Regine Reynolds-Cornell expounds on how French Colonel Armand Tuffin helped George Washington's forces from Massachusetts and New York, to Savannah, and the capture of Yorktown.

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