The Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route is a 680-mile series of roads used in 1781 by the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and the Expédition Particulière under the comman
Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale (1779)
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Brown University's University Hall was used as a hospital for injured troops.
Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 11, 1780, under the command of the Comte de Rochambeau
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The Special Expedition was an expeditionary force deployed by France to North America to support the United States against Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Arriving at Newport, Rho
Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
…Revolutionary Route is a 680-mile (1,090 km) series of roads used in 1781 by the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and the Expédition Particulière under the command of Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau during their 14-week march from Newport, Rhode Island, to Yorktown, Virginia. French forces left Rhode…
Siège de Yorktown by Auguste Couder, c.1836. Rochambeau and Washington giving their last orders before the battle.