The First French Brigade spent the night of September 5/6, 1781, on this campsite in Chester, their twenty-eighth camp since departure from their first camp in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 18, 1781; the next morning it marched on to Wilmington, Delaware. The Second French Brigade occupied the same site on the night of September 6/7, 1781.
French Army Campsite 28 (south) in Chester
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Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts plus campaign artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively |
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Direction | Destination |
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north | Yorktown, Virginia (French infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia (Lauzun’s hussars) |
Latitude | Longitude |
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39.82561824 | -75.40644131 |
Address | Zipcode |
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City | State |
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Chester | PA |
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