French Army Campsites 23 (south), and 31 (north) at Somerset/Millstone

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts plus campaign artillery and Lauzun’s Legion consecutively

Date

Direction	Destination
north	Yorktown, Virginia (French infantry) and Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia (hussars of Lauzun’s Legion) 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
40.49687315	-74.59175384

Address	Zipcode

City	State
Millstone	NJ

Phone Number

American forces encamped here on 7/8 December 1781, and French forces encamped along Yorktown Road on August 30/31, 1781, their twenty-third camp since departure from their first camp in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 18, 1781, and again on the return march on September 8/9, 1782, their thirty-first camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia,on July 1, 1782.

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