Having crossed the Potomac, French forces encamp at Bladensburg, their seventeenth camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782, on their way to a long encampment at Baltimore.
French Army Campsite 17 (north) Bladensburg
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Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively |
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Direction | Destination |
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north | Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts (French infantry) and winterquarters in Wilmington, Delaware (Lauzun’s Legion) |
Latitude | Longitude |
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38.94828905 | -76.94587568 |
Address | Zipcode |
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City | State |
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Hyattsville | MD |
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