Marquis de Lafayette Encampment - East Haven, CT
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N 41° 16.558 W 072° 52.000
18T E 678671 N 4571587
A monument marking the site where General Marquis de Lafayette and his troops camped during their passage from to Rhode Island. The monument is located on the Town Green near Main Street and Park Place in East Haven, CT
Waymark Code: WM17K3Q
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2023
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With the arrival of the French fleet at Delaware Bay on July 8, 1778, General Washington had the resources he needed and planned to attack the British forces in Newport, Rhode Island. He sent General Lafayette and his 2800 troops north from New Jersey to participate in the attack. Along the route, Lafayette and his army encamped in East Haven, CT A monument containing a plaque affixed to a boulder commemorated this encampment. The plaque is inscribed:
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
1757 1834
GENERAL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
CAMPED HERE WITH 2800 TROOPS
ENROUTE TO RHODE ISLAND
JULY 26 AND 27, 1778
DEDICATED HERE BY
CT SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
GENERAL DAVID HUMPHRIES BRANCH
AND
THE EAST HAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1996