French Army Bivouac/Camp 15 (south) at Pines Bridge

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts plus campaign artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively
Date
Direction
Destination
north
Yorktown, Virginia (French infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia (Lauzun’s hussars)
Latitude
Longitude
41.23377699
-73.76757808
Address
Zipcode
City
State
Pines Bridge
NY
Phone Number

French forces bivouaced the night of August 20/21, 1781, its fifteenth camp since departure from their first camp in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 18, 1781. The infantry bivouacked “in the mud all night in the pouring rain.”