French Army Campsite 18 (north) at Snowden’s Iron Works

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively
Date
Direction
Destination
North
Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts (French infantry) and winterquarters in Wilmington, Delaware (Lauzun’s Legion)
Latitude
Longitude
39.07562931
-76.83150742
Address
Zipcode
City
State
Laurel
MD
Phone Number

Having crossed the Potomac, French forces encamp at Snowden’s Iron Works, their eighteenth camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782, on their way to a long encampment at Baltimore.