French Army Campsite 29 (south) in Wilmington

Units
Bourbonnois, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively

Date

Direction	Destination
north	Yorktown, Virginia (French Infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse (Lauzun’s hussars)

Latitude	Longitude
39.74128118	-75.55862902

Address	Zipcode

City	State
Wilmington	DE

Phone Number

Coming from Chester, Pennsylvania, the First Division of the French Army, more than 2,000 officers and men up to 1,000 horses and oxen, camped on this site on September 6/7, 1781. The Second Brigade will enter its twenty-ninth camp since departure from their first camp in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 18, 1781, on September 7/8, 1781, in Newport.

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