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Memorial on Yorktown Field to honor Fusiliers and Marines alliance
A proposed Yorktown Virginia memorial would honor the long friendship between the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the United States Marines. The idea recalls joint actions from 1900 in China to 1937 38 in Shanghai and the colonial siege at Yorktown, linking veterans and leaders from both nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorktown
Union
Virginia
Royal Welch Fusiliers
United States Marines
China
Peking
Legation
Tientsin
Hong Kong
Morris
Royal Welch
The
Marines
Soochow Creek
Shanghai
Fusiliers
America
Lexington
Cornwallis
Virginia Seaport
Colonial National Historical Park
Washington
Count Rochambeau
Marine Corps
Association of the
Richards
George Richards
United States Marine Corps
Society of the Sons of the Revolution
Waller
John Philip Sousa
Gridiron Club
North
Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller
William
James II
Louis XIV
France
Herbert
Foot
of the Boyne
Marlborough
Prince of Wales
George I
Prince of Wales Own
Royal Regiment of Welch Fusiliers
Corunna
Sir John Moore
Lucknow
Highlanders
MacGregors
Campbells
Blenheim
Inkerman
Ramilles
Waterloo
Oudenarde
England
United States
Continental Congress