Yankee Doodle
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"Yankee Doodle" is a traditional song and nursery rhyme, the early versions of which predate the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States to
The first verse and refrain of "Yankee Doodle", engraved on the footpath in a park
Sprit of '76.2
Sheet music for Yankee Doodle
"The Macaroni. A real Character at the late Masquerade", a 1773 mezzotint by Philip Dawe
Yankee
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The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Engl
Yankee Doodle
…men were womanly. The song was a pre-Revolutionary War song originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War. It was written at Fort Crailo around 1755 or 1758 by British Army surgeon Richard Shuckburgh while…
Manifest Destiny, settlement of the United States
Yankee settlers
Boston, New England capital
President Calvin Coolidge of New England