[ 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 to Yorktown.*   *   *

This tablet presented by

Forsyth – Wickes

[ Right & Back Markers : ]To Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Count de Rochambeau Marshal of France 1725 – 1807, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army at the siege of Yorktown – October 6th, 1781

Presented to the City of Newport by

Kingsley Macomber – Paris, France

Dedicated July 13th, 1934

Mortimer A. Sullivan – Mayor   City of Newport

Willing Spencer – Chairman, Dedication Committee

Rededicated on this site July 4th, 1940

Hon. Perry Belmont – Chairman

Marker is on Wellington Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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