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The song Yankee Doodle originally made fun of American Revolutionary War soldiers who only wore a feather in their cap instead of the elaborate headwear worn by the members of the British Macaroni Club.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy was originally written as a song to deride Colonial troops, but after an American military victory over the British, the meaning changed dramatically.
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Fort Crailo, also known as the Yankee Doodle House is the location where a British Army surgeon wrote the song.
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This lithograph titled Yankee Doodle 1776 was created in 1875 and depicts two drummers and a piper playing the Yankee Doodle song as they lead a group of Colonial soldiers into battle.
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