Brouage & La Rochelle

Brouage &
La Rochelle

Tippecanoe Ancient
Fife & Drum Corps


		Brouage, France

	Marvin Hilligoss, our Colonel Viewing the Walls of Brouage


	Brouage is another walled city. 2 kilometers square, it is surrounded by 16 foot tall, 20 foot thick stone walls. It was the birthplace of famous French explorer Samuel Champlain. It also served as the training grounds for the Compagnies Franches de la Marine. At its peak in the 1600's there were over 10,000 French Marines garrisoned there.

Performing on the Town Green.

After 300 years,
the Compagnies
Franches finally
return to Brouage!


		Following our performance, the town officials hosted Tippecanoe to a formal reception. We were honored to sample the local cheeses and their chief product, a wine or brandywine.



	Our Drum Major, Dave Cox Sampling the Local Wine!


		La Rochelle, France

	The keeps guarding La Rochelle Harbor


	The seaport of La Rochelle is where the marine who trained in Brouage would debark for Canada. Prior to the colonization era Brouage and La Rochelle were often at war with one another. La Rochelle was Catholic and Brouage was Hugonaut or Protestant.

Color Guard Corporal Alan Kenaga
Triumphantly Leads the Compagnies Franches return to La Rochelle!

Accompanying are drummer Matt House and our 1995-97 Drum Sergeant, a then 13 year old Clark Becker.


	Les Compagnies Franches de la Marine recreated in 1969 on the banks of the Wabash by The Tippecanoe Ancient Fife & Drum Corps


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