During the course of the war, about one fifth of the northern army was black. At the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, Baron Closen, a German officer in the French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment, estimated the American army to be about one-quarter black.
Jeddo, Pennsylvania. (Redirected from Jeddo, PA) Jeddo is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 98 at the 2010 census.
The Pennsylvania borough was originally known as Japan-Jeddo after the Japanese port of Edo, Japan (anglicized to Jeddo, Japan) to which coal was exported by the Hazleton Coal Company, a local coal company. Edo in Japan was later renamed Tokyo in 1868.