French Army Campsite 23 (north) at Lower Ferry/Perryville

Location

Perryville, MD

Who?:  French
Units:  Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun's Legion consecutively
Direction:  North
Destination:  Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts (French infantry) and winterquarters in Wilmington, Delaware (Lauzun's Legion)
Date:  August 26-30, 1782
Public Access:  No

Having crossed the Potomac French forces encamp at Perryville, their twenty-third camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782, on their way to a long encampment at Baltimore.