Joscelynn Fifing at Yorktown
Saturday, 7 July 2007 by Jacob Tomaw
Let’s continue to remember our Independence. Here I give you the scene from the final battle of the Revolution. The Siege of Yorktown. I bet you did not know Joscelynn was one of the Fifers.
This is really an amazing painting from the Hall of Victories at Château de Versailles. If you look close you can see Pres. George Washinton and Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette. I would think Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Steuben, Baron von Steuben is in there too, but this is French version of history, so I am not sure.
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July 7th, 2007 at 15:01
You can’t tell here, but I’m playing World Turned Upside Down, the alleged Surrender at Yorktown song. In middle school I used to play this often with the Voyageurs Fife and Drum Corps. This was a bit out of character, now that I think about it, as we were supposed to represent the French fur traders that made their way down the Wabash to trade at Ft. Ouiatenon near Lafayette, IN. Then again we used to have “jams” with other Corps’ representing everything from Hessians to Civil War soldiers, so what are you gonna do? Yeah yeah yeah, big nerd.