French 75 Millimeter Feldhase

This 1916 gun was used by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1 as part of a horse drawn caisson. During the war, American forces were loaned guns, planes, and other equipment from the French arsenal.

This gun was moved ...

French's Division, Second Army Corps

U.S.A.

French's Division, Second Army Corps,

Brig. Gen. William H. French, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

French's Division crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford about 8:30 a.m. and marched in columns by brigades, Kimball on the right, Morris in the center, and Weber on the ...

Kern City French Bakery

East Bakersfield, originally named Sumner, was founded by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1874. The name of the town was changed to Kern in 1893 and shortly thereafter was called Kern City.

This building, constructed in 1910, was originally the Kern ...

The view of Frenchman Bay

All the mountains that you see are part of Acadia National Park

The Age of Sail lingered into the 1900s as sailing ships proved more economical than steamships for carrying heavy cargos such as granite.

Generations of watercraft ply the bay for ...

1749 French Claims to Ohio River Valley

Side A:

In 1749, the French in North America perceived a threat by British expansion west of the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River Valley and beyond. The French commander, Pierre Joseph Celeron, sieur de Blainville, with 250 men, left Montreal, ...

French Soldiers of the Revolutionary War

We remember

these French Soldiers who gave

their lives for our independence

in our old St. Peter’s building

years 1781 – 1782

Lieutenant de Mauvis • Jean Bonnair • Jean Joseph Paquay • Alexis Labrue • Joseph Duguin • Georges Mochl • Claude-Pierre Dumageot • ...

Clifton–French River

Clifton, first townsite surveyed in the United States section of the North Shore, was platted

west of the mouth of the French River in 1855. The river was known to early explorers

as Riviere des Francais. Rumors of nearby copper deposits resulted ...

Dowden's Ordinary: A French & Indian War Site

On April 15, 1755 a British seaman wrote in his diary:

  On the 15th: Marched at 5 in our way to one

Dowden's, a Publichouse ... and encamped upon

very bad ground on the side of a hill. We got ...

Otho French Strahl

(Front):

Confederate Brigadier General

War Between the States, 1861-1865

Born: 1832, Homer Township,

Reached maturity in Malta Township, Morgan County

K.I.A. November 30, 1864

Battle of Franklin, Tennessee

(Rear):

Placed by:

The help of generous donors to

Generals Albert Jenkins and Otho Strahl Camp,

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Parkersburg, West Virginia

1991

Deo Vindice

Marker ...

Gov. Augustus C. French

On this site stood the home of Augustus C. French (1808-1864) when he was elected the ninth Governor of Illinois.

The early settlers in Illinois came mostly from Southern States so that French, a native of New Hampshire, was the first ...