Contents and Arrangement
85. Camp à Arche's-Hupe, le 25 Septembre, undated
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Thirty-Eighth Camp at Archer's Hope. 25 September 1781. The transports that had brought the combined French and American forces from Annapolis are shown off the landing point at Archer's Hope, which was about 7 miles southeast of Williamsburg to the west of the mouth of College Creek. Washington (Diaries, II, 261) refers to the spot as "the upper point of College Creek." The present Colonial Parkway passes along this shore. Archer's Hope is east of Jamestown Island, where Saint-Simon's forces from the West Indies had landed on 2 September. About 3 1/2 miles downstream and east of Archer's Hope encampment, depicted here near the shore along the road leading to Williamsburg, shows both French regiments (yellow) and the American units (green).
- Arrangement
The documents and maps are arranged chronologically by packet/item number that continue (for the most part) the numbering begun in the previous series.
- General
These papers are housed in the original red portfolio cases (and order) in which they were presented to the Library in 1939.
Collection History
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
85. Camp à Arche's-Hupe, le 25 Septembre; Louis-Alexandre Berthier Collection, C0022, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (hsvm)
- IX
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- Existence and Location of Copies
This collection is also available in microfilm.
- Separated Materials
Relation de l'Escadre Française, aux ordres du Cher. Destouches, & de l'affaire qui a eue lieu le 16 Mars 1781, entre cette Escadre & celle des Anglais, commandée par l'Amiral Arbuthnot was transferred to rare books (1081.755 EX).
- Bibliography
MS, No 21-35/38. Rochambeau's copy is in the Library of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia. [Rice/Brown, pp. 156-157]
- Names:
- France. Armée
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de (1725-1807)
