American War of Independance

In February 1778 the French King Louis XVI declared war on England in order to assist the American insurgents in their fight for freedom. For the French King it was a political gamble after the severe defeat of his country against England twenty years before.

Now France and England would fight a world war in a race to control the world diplomacy in the coming 19th century. The battlefields would stretch to the Coasts of Europe, America, the West Indies, Western Africa, and India.

         - Jean Stiegel in America (1778-1781) 
 
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	Regiments: Beauce, Touraine
	Battlefields: Europe, West Indies, The United States

         - September 2, 1781 – The army of the Marquis de Saint-Simon lands in Virginia
        
         Extract from my book on the story of Hans Stiegel:
 
                                                                                Navigating the Waves 
                                          The Memoirs of a French soldier during the American War of Independence


         - October 1781 – The Franco-American armies in Williamsburg



         - The Story of Andreas Fritsch 
 
	Regiment: Lamarck
	Battlefield: India