French Infantry Campsite 1 (south), and 51 (north) in Providence

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery and Lauzun’s Infantry in 1781

Date

Direction	Destination
both	White Plains, New York and Yorktown, Virginia in 1781, Boston, Massachusetts (French infantry) in 1782

Latitude	Longitude
41.81415933	-71.42419332

Address	Zipcode

City	State
Providence	RI

Phone Number

French forces under comte de Rochambeau camped here June 12-21, 1781, before setting out for White Plains, New York to join the Continental Army under General Washington. French forces camped here again in November 1782, their fifty-first camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782.

For information on the Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail provided by the friends’ group W3R-US click here: https://w3r-og.w3r-us.org/

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For a timeline of the Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail in Rhode Island click here: Timeline

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