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1. ?Gabbi A.K.A Gabrielle Said,

   Yes?:

   http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS308US309&q=yankee+doodle
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2. Mike Money Said,

   yes he was real.. he’s dead now.. but he was an extrodinary and fascinating gentleman
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3. Lizard Wrath Said,

   Archibald Willard
   http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArchibald_MacNeal_Willard&ei=c__gSdSQNNzmnQeHq52zCQ&usg=AFQjCNFnYvLUNa0YxLvNx3fvv6FeO-Dt-g

   Stânga????
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4. Lauren M Said,

   apperently…………. I didn’t know that cool!
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5. Liz deJesus Said,

   Only in the same sense that John Q. Public is real. "Yankee Doodle" is representational of early, upstart Americans, as perceived by the British.
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6. hasse_john Said,

   I heard that it was an insulting expression the British used about Americans. And the Americans picked it up (with pride sort of) and threw it back. Kind of like ‘red neck’. That’s what I learned in school, but of course it might be wrong.
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7. Maria R Said,

   "Yankee" derives from a dutch word that means a rural person with a low social level. "Doodle" is a man who is silly and somewhat effeminate. The british invented the song as a way of taunting the american revolutionaries and the american soldiers later took it up. I guess its like the way african-americans call each other the "N" word.
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8. Terry Said,

   Yankee Doodle. The quasi national air of the United States, the doggerel words of which are said to have been written by Dr. Shuckburg, a surgeon in Lord Amherst’s army durng the French and Indian war of 1755.

   During the later revolutionary war, the British troops and then the American troops picked the song up again, but for very different reasons.

   The origin of the tune is disputed: some say that it comes from a medireval church service, others that it was composed in England in Cromwell’s time, others that it was played by the Hessian troops during the American Revolution and adopted by the revolutionaries in mockery. A Dutch origin has also been suggested.

   Wiki is wrong about the whole thing as usual. There was no Yankee Doodle person as in calling a person a doodle was an insult as was the word macaroni in the next line.
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   Verified via three books of the two wars.

9. vampgirl1333 Said,

   i dont know. if he was he must have been very embaressed by his name
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10. toph bei fong Said,

    Yankee Doodle" is a well-known British song the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years’ War. It has been widely adopted in the United States and is often sung patriotically today. It is the state anthem of Connecticut.[1]

    The first verse and refrain, as often sung today, run thus:

    Yankee Doodle went to town,
    A-Riding on a pony;
    He stuck a feather in his cap,
    And called it macaroni

    The song’s origins were in a pre-Revolutionary War song originally by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War. The word doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century to mean a fool or simpleton, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudel or dödel, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". It is believed that the tune comes from the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket. The mention of ‘Macaroni’ is a reference to an over the top sense of fashion and the men who took part in it, who were often referred to as the "Macaroni Club". One version of the Yankee Doodle lyrics is attributed to Doctor Richard Shuckburgh, a British Army surgeon, who wrote the song after witnessing the unprofessional appearance of Colonel Thomas Fitch, Jr., the son of Connecticut Governor Thomas Fitch, who arrived in Albany in 1755 with the Connecticut militia.

    The Boston Journal of the Times wrote about a British band declaring "that Yankee Doodle song was the Capital Piece of their band

    Some believe that these were alternative lyrics used by the British army during the revolutionary war. A "macaroni", in the mid-18th-century, was a fashionable person; the joke being that the Yankees believed that a feather in the hat was sufficient to make them the height of fashion. Whether or not these were alternative lyrics sung in the British army, they were enthusiastically taken up by the Yanks themselves.
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