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UNITED STATES and ALSACE (USA). Amazing contributions…. 19 October 1781 . The British forces surrender to Georges Washington after 400 men of The Regiment Royal de Strasburg stormed redoubt 9 and the last British defenses. Cornwallis surrender to Washington. From Amerigo… to America .
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UNITED STATES and ALSACE(USA) Amazingcontributions….
19 October 1781 • The British forces surrender to Georges Washington after 400 men of The Regiment Royal de Strasburg stormed redoubt 9 and the last British defenses
From Amerigo… to America • Mathias Ringmann, born 1482 in Alsace
From Brandau to Brando • The Alsatian Godfather
From Lembach (1892) to the Moon (1969) and Back Home…. • Schweickahrt, the first manned flight of the Lunar Module in March 1969
From Bischwiller to the White House • We gave you a Black Alsatian president, • In 1724 Johannes Gutknecht and Marie Madeleine Grünholtz left Bischwiller, To Germantown (PA).. • And 6 generations later…..