French Infantry Campsite 40 (north) in Danbury

Units
Bourbonnois, Soissonnois, Saintonge, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiments of Infantry plus regimental artillery

Date

Direction	Destination
north	Boston. Massachusetts (French infantry)

Latitude	Longitude
41.39191913	-73.43852135

Address	Zipcode

City	State
Danbury	CT

Phone Number

Coming from their long encampment near Hunt’s Tavern, French forces back-track the routes they had taken in June 1781 to White Plains, New York. The camp in Salem Center is their thirty-ninth camp since departure from Williamsburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1782.

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