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Soldiers in the French Army Who Died 
in the U.S. Theater of Operations, 1778-1783

Le Souvenier Français (SF) is an organization dedicated to finding and marking the graves of French military personnel who died outside of France. The SF listings for troops in Lauzun's Legion gives death location only as "Amerique". More specific locations were extracted from the controles for Lauzun's Legion and published in The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route in the State of Delaware 1781-1783, by Dr. Robert Selig (State of Delaware, 2003). Ralph Nelson (Delaware Society SAR) added a column noting the state and city in which the Legion was encamped on the date of death:       List of Deaths (ordered by state and city) [PDF file]. The SF Army booklet lists 990 French soldiers who died in U.S. theater of operations during the American Revolution. About 240 were in 1778-79 operations and about 750 were in 1780-83 operations. The listing below is presented with the permission of Le Souvenier Français. The listing is alphabetic by the location of death (6th column over). A similar booklet listing deaths of French sailors contains about 1,000 names. We hope to present it here at a later date.

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