French forces under comte de Rochambeau camped near Green Falls/Burk’s Bridge on July 9-12, 1782, their eighth camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia,on July 1, 1782. French forces are on their march north to re-join the Continental Army outside New York City, New York.
French Army Campsite 8 (north) at Wrights Fork in Green Falls
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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 winter quarters 1782/83 in Wilmington, Delaware (Lauzun’s Legion) in 1782. |
Latitude | Longitude |
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37.954859 | -77.31161919 |
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City | State |
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Millford | VA |
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