French American Revolutionary War Memorial
Hommage de la France aux combattant tombes pour l'Independence des Etats-Unis d'Amerique.
Erected 1976 by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President de la Republique Francaise.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
Location. 37° 14.009′ N, 76° 30.305′ W. Memorial is in Yorktown, Virginia, in York County. It can be reached from the intersection of Main Street and Bacon Street, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 803 Main St, Yorktown VA 23690, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is on Virginia’s Peninsula, in Coastal Virginia, and in the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, and in the Tidewater. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Monument to the Alliance and Victory (here, next to this marker); Bicentennial of the Treaties of Paris and Versailles (a few steps from this marker); In Memory of the Men of the French Fleet (a few steps from this marker); Ratification of the Treaty of Paris (within
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