Rochambeau Route 1781 – 82

In this vicinity

French Troops under

Rochambeau

enroute to Yorktown

encamped during June 1781

Erected by the state

and

Mattatuck Branch,

Sons Amer. Rev.

Cooperating

Marker is on Middlebury Road (Connecticut Route 64) 0.1 miles west of Charcoal Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

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Rochambeau

[ Left Marker : ]On June eighteenth, 1781, General Rochambeau left Newport with his army to join the American forces on the Hudson, and on August nineteenth, 1781, the combined armies under command of General Washington began their victorious march ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Housatonic Crossing

French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. After wintering in Newport, Rochambeau’s ...

Washington-Rochambeau Route

Alexandria Encampment

Most of the American and French armies set sail from three ports in Maryland—Annapolis, Baltimore, and Head of Elk—in mid-Sept. 1781 to besiege the British army in Yorktown. The allied supply-wagon traln proceeded overland to Yorktown, its itinerary divided ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Wethersfield

French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. ...

The Rochambeau Route 1781 – 82

The

Rochambeau

Route

1781 – 82

In the Vicinity

French Troops Under

Duc De Lauzon

Enroute From Newport

To Yorktown

Encamped During

June 29 Through

July 1st 1781

Erected by The

Sons of the American Revolution

Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman Branch

Bridgeport, CT

Marker is at the intersection of Monroe Turnpike (Route 111) ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Waterbury, Middlebury, Southbury

French General Jean Baptiste Donation de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War ...

Washington-Rochambeau Route

General Washington and General Rochambeau passed her on Sept. 13, 1781 on their way to victory at Yorktown. One mile south, they turned east on state rout 605.

The marking of this route is a gift from the French Government. ...

Rochambeau’s Encampment

1781 – 1782

After crossing the Hudson,

Commander-in-chief of the

French army in America,

General Jean-Baptiste

Rochambeau, encamped here

with his 5000 troops en route

from Newport, R.I. to

Virginia. Joining with Gen.

Washington, the two armies

hurried to Yorktown and

forced the surrender of the

besieged British General

Cornwallis October 19, 1781.

This ...

Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River

1781 * 1954

Near this point

Le Comte de Rochambeau

crossed the Housatonic River

leading the French Army

enroute to victory at Yorktown.

Marker is on Interstate 84 (Interstate 84), on the right when traveling east.

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