French Army Campsite 1 (north) at Drinking Spring
Location
Williamsburg, VA
Who?: French
Units: Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery
Direction: north
Destination: Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts.
Date: July 1-4, 1782
Public Access: 1
French forces under comte de Rochambeau camped near Drinking Spring on July 1-4, 1782, their first camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia,on July 1, 1782. French forces are on their march north to re-join the Continental Army outside New York City, New York.