French Wagon Train Campsite 10 and French Army Campsite 4 (north), at Harfield

Location


New Kent, VA

Who?:  French
Units:  French Wagon Train in 1781, French infantry in 1782
Direction:  north
Destination:  Yorktown, Virginia (French Wagon Train in 1781), Crompond/Yorktown Heights, New York and from there to Boston, Massachusetts (infantry) in 1782.
Date:  American Wagon Train October 5/6, 1781, July 4-7, 1782 (French infantry)
Public Access:  1

French forces under comte de Rochambeau camped here in New Kent on July 10-13, 1782, their ninth 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.