American Campsite and French Army Campsites 34 (south), and 20 (north) in Baltimore/Howard's Woods

American Campsite and French Army Campsites 34 (south), and 20 (north) in Baltimore/Howard’s Woods

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively

Date

Direction	Destination
Both	Yorktown, Virginia (French Infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse (Lauzun’s hussars) in 1781, Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts (French infantry) and winter quarters in Wilmington, Delaware (Lauzun’s Legion)

Latitude	Longitude
39.28857235	-76.62183812

Address	Zipcode

City	State
Baltimore	MD

Phone Number

On September 12, 1781, Continental Army troops under General Benjamin Lincoln camped at this location as did French forces, their fifth camp since departure from their first camp in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 18, 1781. In July-August 1782, Rochambeau’ army camped in a wooded grove in Howard’s Woods, (today’s Mount Vernon neighborhood), near the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore, their twentieth camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782,

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