September 27, according to Heath, " General Washington, covered by the Dragoons and light infantry, reconnoitered the grounds on the east side of the river below the White Plains." Record of this enterprise appears also in Washington's "Accounts with the United States," as follows: "September, 1782.-- To the Expences of a Reconnoitre as low as Philipsburg & thence across from Dobbs's ferry to ye Sound with a large Party of Horse, £32 Ss [lawful currency]." In' that charming book of personal reminiscences, the Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur, several pages are devoted to the impressions made upon the poetic temperament of the author during The Count Segur a sojourn at Rochambeau's cam]) at Crompond. and found on the 26th of September, camp however, weeks, two first the i During Rochambeau had his headquarters at Peekskill, Rochambeau qu£ ed at " I'iskill " [I'eekthe afterward, days few a " ,,-here also most of his army was apparently skill], whence, stationed after its arrival. See, in this connec- French proceeded to occupy another position, lion, the Memoirs of Count Segur (Boston ed., "that of Crampont " [Crompond]. 1x25, pp. 275, 276). Count Segur arrived at the

REVOLUTION

was one of the most ardent enthusiasts for American liberty among the young French nobility. An officer in the army, he had repeatedly, during the progress of the Revolution, sought opportunity to come to America and fight under Washington, but to his intense clisgusi had been denied that privilege. Finally, in the spring of 1782, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the regiment of the Soisonnais, then with Rochambeau in Virginia; and he also was intrusted by his father, the minister of war, with dispatches to General Rochambeau and a large amount of gold for the royal troops. Landing on the coast of Virginia after a perilous voyage, he proceeded to Rochambeau's camp in our county, where he arrived on the 26th of September.