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 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. ...

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 Revolutionary Route

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Hartford

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. ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Southington

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

Washington – Rochambeau Route

Generals Washington and Rochambeau and their staffs arrived in Williamsburg on September 14, 1781. Here they gathered their troops and supplies prior to laying siege to Cornwallis at Yorktown 12 miles away on September 28, 1781.

The marking of ...