A French delegation visited the Mathews Museum and joined museum president Tom Robinson at an Oct. 18 wreath-laying ceremony in Yorktown. The mutual appearances highlighted the connection between French sacrifices during the American Revolution and Mathews County’s Battle of Cricket Hill, according to a museum release. Robinson represented the museum at the ceremony at the French Cemetery, where he joined French Major General Vincent de Kytspotter and Thierry Chaunu, president of The American Society of Le Souvenir Français, in honoring French sailors who died during the Revolution. The ceremony paid tribute to 50 sailors who lost their lives in the fighting there, as part of the significant French support for American independence. The day before the ceremony, Chaunu visited the Mathews Museum to view its diorama of the Battle of Cricket Hill, fought in Mathews County on July 9, 1776. Robinson said Chaunu made arrangements to present a French Army flag and commemorative plaque recogni...