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143. Camp à Peak's Kill, le 17 Septembre, 9 miles 1/2 de Hawer Straw. Séjour jusqu'au 23 September, undated
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Thirty-seventh Camp at Peekskill. 17-23 September 1782. Nine and a half miles from the preceding camp at Haverstraw. The entire army is shown in camp here (Lauzun's Legion, at right, nearest the Hudson) on hillocks to the south of the village of Peekskill. The site is in the southern part of the now-populated part of Peekskill. The small stream at top of map (south) is Dickey Brook; the single peak beyond it, Blue Mountain. For its relationship to the larger general area, see maps of the 1781 campaign, Nos. 48 and 62. On the way to its camp here at Peekskill the French army had crossed the Hudson at King's Ferry (Stony Point to Verplanck's Point) and then marched past the American camp, which was closer to the ferry landing. The French halted at Peekskill for a week before proceeding on 24 September, eastward and farther inland, to their next camp at Hunt's Tavern (also referred to as the Crompond encampment).
- Arrangement
Maps are arranged chronologically by sequential packet number.
- 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
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No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was word-processed by Anna Bialek in July and August of 2005. Finding aid written by Howard Rice in 1957.
During 2022, restrictions for this collection were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
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The collection is open for research.
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- Credit this material:
143. Camp à Peak's Kill, le 17 Septembre, 9 miles 1/2 de Hawer Straw. Séjour jusqu'au 23 September; 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): Box XII
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- 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. 39-37. Rochambeau's copy is in the Library of Congress, Map Division. [Rice/Brown, pp. 185-186] According to a "Plan du Camp de Pisk-kill" in Cromot Dubourg's "Atlas," No. 8 (Service Historique de la Marine, Fonds du Service Hydrographique, MS No. 2847), Washington's army had occupied a position on these same heights in "1780" (presumably an error for 1781). Accounts of the stop at Peekskill, including the review by General Washington, are in the journals of Clermont-Crèvecœur (pp. 78-79) and of Verger (pp. 165-167).
- Names:
- France. Armée
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de (1725-1807)