Washington - Rochambeau National Historic Trail
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A Brief Timeline:

1781

Sept 2 - Continental artillery and troops begin to arrive at Christiana, in row-galleys that were transported by large wheeled carts to Elkton, MD for use in transporting the artillery and troops to Yorktown. Sept 4 - Canby Park near Newport was used as a campsite by half of the U.S. Continentals. Sept 6 - the area near the MLK Blvd and Maryland Ave. in downtown Wilmington, was used as a campsite by Gen. Rochambeau and the first half of the French Expeditionary Force (FEF). Sept 7 - Canby Park near Newport was used as a campsite by the hussars of Lauzun's Legion. Sept 8 - the second half of the FEF camped in the flood plain just south of Newport. Oct 19 - Victory at Yorktown. Continental forces return north immediately. Nine months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the French march north following the same path they took south.

1782

Aug 29 and 30 - the two divisions of the FEF camp just south of Newport. December - Lauzun's Legion returned to Wilmington and stayed until May 1783 to help guard the approaches to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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Washington at Trenton, John Trumbull, 1794
Rochambeau Versailles, Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1834