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Retracing the long road to freedom

Published 09/16/06


Watching three men soaked to the skin in Revolutionary War uniforms trudge through Thursday's downpour along Generals Highway had Chris Waltjen of Crownsville hitting the history books again.

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Photo by Paul W. Gillespie -- The Capital A passer-by takes a second look as, from left, Mike Fitzgerald, Dave Fagerberg and Dave Holloway, a group of Revolutionary War re-enactors march down West Street past the KFC.
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Historical re-enactors Mike Fitzgerald, David Halloway and David Faberberg marched into Annapolis yesterday, 400 miles into their four-month, 600 mile trip to recreate the march of French Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau during the American Revolution.

The re-enactors are marching the route the French followed from Rhode Island to Virginia to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the battle of Yorktown, where...

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