6th. The French Army formed the junction with the American on the Grounds marked out.1 The Legion of Lauzen took a position advanced of the plains on Chittendens hill2 west of the River Brunx [Bronx]. This day also the Minister of France arrived in Camp from Philadelphia.
1. The French reached Philipsburg about six o’clock on the evening of 6 July and camped about a quarter of a mile from the American camp ( , 91–92). The allied camp is described in detail in Louis Alexandre Berthier’s journal ( , 1:249). GW’s Headquarters was at the house of Joseph Appleby, “on the cross-road from Dobbs’ Ferry to White Plains, and about three and a half miles from the ferry” ( [1], 226). Rochambeau’s headquarters was at the Odell house, about 1½ miles east of the Appleby house (see , 46–47).
2. Chatterton’s Hill was at White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y.