Memorial Day History Tour of the White House Park & National Mall

Memorial Day History Tour of the White House Park & National Mall

Memorial Day History Tour of the White House Neighborhood, 250 years of military affairs.

By Ed Moser

Date and time

Monday, May 27 · 4 - 6:15pm EDT

Location

John Paul Jones Memorial

17th Street Southwest Washington, DC 20004

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About this event

  • 2 hours 15 minutes

Examine almost 250 years of U.S. history in this unique walking tour, on Memorial Day, around the environs of the home of America's Commanders-in-Chief.


Our packed itinerary will draw from:

o "I have not yet begun to fight!"

o The locale where the most famous military anthem was written

o The real-life Indiana Jones

o Where the sea battle of Midway was won--on the National Mall.

o The World War One memorial park

o The Commander-in-Chief who saved the most lives

o The Broadway star who was a war hero at Yorktown

o The humble woman who faced down an enemy general

o The wartime start of "Hooker's Alley"

o The official who brokered America's first Civil War--of 1794

o How Northern belles and Southern bankers saved the home of the first U.S. Army head

o Where Frederick Douglass worked after recruiting troops for the Union Army

o How Lafayette got the last laugh on the kings of Europe

o Where Dolley Madison saved what became the National Archives

o President Jackson's astonishing strategy to defeat the world's best military

o The greatest of the early U.S. Navy heroes

o The secret of George Washington's martinet

o How the "Paul Revere of the South" saved the American Revolution

o The scoundrel who saved the Battle of Gettysburg

o The "hero of three nations"

o The future President who cared for war-torn Europe

o The famed General who transformed defeated Japan.

o The War and Navy department buildings, from 1799 to 1940.

o The greatest caregiver to America's soldiers.

o Thrilling monuments to the Army's most valiant units.

And more!


Your guide is a former Presidential speechwriter, former Tonight Show writer, and author of history-laden thriller, The Old Town Horror:


THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America’s Most Historic Locale - Kindle edition by Moser, Edward P.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.


And of The White House's Unruly Neighborhood:


https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7


And the Lost History of the Capitol:


https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909


And the Two-Term Jinx:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-Presidents-Washington-Theodore-Roosevelt-ebook/dp/B01K0NT0CK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=


MEET at the Commander John Paul Jones statue on 17th St. across from the WW2 memorial.