In honor and grateful remembrance of the French allies in the Revolution, an army under General Count de Rochambeau marched past this spot from Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, to join General Washington on the Hudson River in 1781, and again on its return from Yorktown, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1782. The main body of about 4000 men was composed of the Regiments of Bourbonnais, Royal Deux-Ponts, Soissonnais and Saint Once, and the artillery. The regiments marched in that order on successive days from Providence, always keeping between each other the distance of a day's march, and the artillery followed immediately in the rear of the second regiment. General Count de Rochambeau marched at the head of the main body, and the regiments camped successively a little south of Farmington Village on June 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1781. On its return the army marched in two columns, keeping between each other the distance of a day's march, and camped successively in the southern part of the village on October 28 and 29, 1782. A left flank guard of about 600 Hussars and light infantry, under the command of the Duke De Lauzun, marched from its winter camp at Lebanon, Connecticut, abreast of, and about fifteen miles from, the main body in 1781.