Eighteenth Camp at Snowden's Iron Works [Laurel, Maryland]. 22-25 July 1782. Thirteen and a half miles from the previous camp at Bladensburg. Snowden's Iron Works was on the patuxent River. Major Thomas Snowden's house, shown here, is "Montpelier," still standing on present State Route 197. Verger's journal (p. 160) designates the camp as "Rose's Tavern," also shown on the map.

Nineteenth Camp at Spurrier's Tavern. 23-26 July 1782. Nine miles from the previous camp at Snowden's Iron Works and 13 miles from the next camp at Baltimore. Spurrier's Tavern was near present Waterloo on U.S. Route 1. According to Von Closen (p. 215), the camp was "near Spurrier's Tavern...not far from Dorsay's house." At this point the army rejoined the route of its southbound march in September 1781. At that time it had reached Spurrier's Tavern when news of the arrival of La Villebrune's ships, with adequate transports, determined the march southeastward to Annapolis. Cf. No. 162 and notes to Nos. 80 and 82.

Twentieth Camp at Baltimore. 24 July - 24 August 1782. During its month-long encampment here the army's positions were more extended than during the brief stop in Baltimore in September 1781; cf. Nos. 80 and 81. This time the camp stretched southward from a point near present Franklin and Paca Streets (left of map) to a point near Hanover and Lee Streets. The steam west of the camp (shown at bottom of map) flowing into Ridgeley's Cove was the Chatsworth Run, now lost beneath city pavements. Lauzun's Legion is shown in an advanced position on another height, in the vicinity of the present "old" Roman Catholic Cathedral (designed by Latrobe, dedicated in 1821).