As the First Brigade, including Rochambeau, left its eighteenth camp in Haverstraw, about three miles from King’s Ferry on August 25, 1781, the Second Brigade crossed the Hudson and occupied this campsite on August 25/26, 1781.
French Army Campsites 18 (south), and 36 (north) at Haverstraw
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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 (Continental Army and French Infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse (Lauzun’s hussars) in 1781, 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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41.23219544 | -73.97654586 |
Address | Zipcode |
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City | State |
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Stony Point | NY |
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