Cannon fire seen from the Hermione as it arrives at
Riverwalk Landing Marina on Friday in Yorktown,
Virginia.
Sails unfurled and greeted by a cheering crowd, the ship
that brought the Marquis de Lafayette and bad news for Britain returned
to America on Friday — or at least its three-masted twin did, arriving
to a hero’s welcome in Virginia.
A replica of the
Hermione, the 18th-century frigate that carried Lafayette to the
rebellious colonies with the French king’s promise to send an army and a
fleet, sailed into Yorktown, Virginia, 235 years after the original
docked on American shores.
A crowd of several
hundred people cheered its arrival at the port, and fireworks shot into
the morning sky from docked ships nearby. The Hermione in turn fired its
unarmed cannons as it travelled up the river. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2015
