Note: In order to keep the bibliography within the limits imposed by this study, only the more important literature is listed here. For additional titles as well as unpublished sources used in this study the reader is referred to the footnotes accompanying the text.

         Acomb, Evelyn, ed., The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen, 1780-1783 (Chapel Hill, 1958).

       Balch, Thomas. Les Français en Amérique Pendant la Guerre de L'Indépendance des États?Unis 1777?1783 2 vols., (Paris, 1872, English translation, 1891).

         Balch, Thomas, ed., The Journal of Claude Blanchard, Commissary of the French Auxiliary Army sent to the United States during the American Revolution (Albany, 1876).

        Barneville, Brissout de. "Journal de Guerre de Brissout de Barneville. Mai 1780-Octobre 1781" The French-American Review Vol. 3, No. 4, (October 1950), pp. 217-278.

         Bishop, Morris. "A French Volunteer" American Heritage Vol. 17, Nr. 5, (August 1966), pp. 47, 103-108

        Bodinier, Gilbert. "Les officiers du corps expéditionnaire de Rochambeau et la Revolution française" Revue historique des armées Vol. 3, No. 4, (1976), pp. 139-164.

         Bodinier, Gilbert. Dictionnaire des officiers de l'armée royale qui ont combattu aux États-Unis pendant la guerre d'Indépendance (Château de Vincennes, 1982).

        Bonsal, Stephen. When the French Were here: A Narrative of the Sojourn of the French Forces in America, and Their Contribution to the Yorktown Campaign (Garden City, NY, 1945).

         Brown, Gayle K. "'Into the Hands of Papists': New England Captives in French Canada and the English Anti-Catholic Tradition, 1689-1763" The Maryland Historian Vol. 21, (1990), pp. 1-11.

        Buel, Richard. Dear Liberty. Connecticut's Mobilization for the Revolutionary War (Middletown, 1980).

        Chartrand, René and Francis Back, The French Army in the American War of Independence (London, 1991).

        Chastellux, marquis de. Travels in North America in Years 1780-81 Howard C. Rice, Jr., ed., 2 vols., (Chapel Hill, 1963).

        Coriolis, chevalier de. "Lettres d'un officier de l'Armée de Rochambeau: le chevalier de Coriolis" Le correspondant No. 326, (March 25, 1932), pp. 807-828.

        Crofut, Florence S. Marcy. Guide to the History and Historic Sites of Connecticut 2 vols., (New Haven, 1937).

        Cromot du Bourg, Marie-François baron, "Diary of a French Officer, 1781" Magazine of American History Vol. 4, (March 1880), pp. 205-214, (April 1880), pp. 293-308, (May 1880), pp. 376-385, (June 1880), pp. 441-452.

        Dawson, Warrington. "Un Garde suisse de Louis XVI au service de l'Amérique" Le correspondant Vol. 324, Nr. 1655, (September 10, 1931), pp. 672-692.

        Destler, Chestler. "Newtown and the American Revolution" Connecticut History Vol. 20, No. 6, (1979), pp. 6-26.

        Deux-Ponts, William de. My Campaigns in America Samuel Abbot Green, ed., (Boston, 1868).

        Doniol, J. Henry. Histoire de la participation de la France a l'Établissement des États-Unis d'Amérique 5 vols. (Paris, 1886-1892).

         Dull, Jonathan R. The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 (Princeton, 1975).

        Eccles, W. J. "The French Alliance and the American Victory" in: The World Turned Upside Down. The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling, ed., (Westport, 1976), pp. 147-163.

        Echeverria, Durand. "The American Revolutionary Army: A French Estimate in 1777" Military Affairs Vol. 27, (1963), pp. 1-7 and pp. 153-62.

        Fiechter, Jean-Jacques. "L'aventure américaine des officiers de Rochambeau vue à travers leurs journaux" in: Images of America in Revolutionary France Michèle R. Morris, ed., (Washington, DC, 1990), pp. 65-82.

       Fonteneau, General. "La période française de la guerre d'Indépendance (1776-1780)" Revue historique des armées Vol. 3, No. 4, (1976), pp. 47-77.

       Forbes, Allan and Paul F. Cadman, France and New England 3 vols., (Boston, 1925).

        Forbes, Allan "Marches and Camp Sites of the French Army in New England During the Revolutionary War" Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings Vol. 58, (April 1925), pp. 267-286.

        Furet, François. "De l'homme sauvage à l'homme historique: l'expérience américaine dans la culture française" in: La Révolution Américaine et l'Europe, Claude Fohlen and Jacques Godechot, eds., (Paris, 1979), pp. 91-108

        Harris, Robert D. "French Finances and the American War, 1777-1783" Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, (June 1976), pp. 233-258.

        Hoffman, Ronald and Peter J. Albert, eds., Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 (Charlottesville,1981).

        Hughes, Arthur H. and Morse S. Allen, Connecticut Place Names (Hartford, 1976)

        Keim, D.B.Randolph ed., Rochambeau. A Commemoration by the Congress of the United States of the Services of the French Auxiliary Forces in the War of the American Independence (Washington, DC, 1907).

        Kennett, Lee. The French Forces in America, 1780-1783 (Westport, 1977).

        Kennett, Lee. "L'expédition Rochambeau-Ternay: un succès diplomatique" Revue historique des armées Vol. 3, No. 4, (1976), pp. 87- 105

        Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (France). Les Combattants Français de la Guerre Americaine 1778?1783 (Paris, 1903) Also published as United States Senate Document No 77, 58th Cong, 2d session (1905).

        Murphy, Orville T. "The French Professional Soldier's Opinion of the American Militia in the War of the Revolution" Military Affairs Vol. 33, (February 1969), pp. 191-198.

        Nicholas, Charles. Le Maréchal de Camp Desandrouins (Verdun, 1887).

        Noailles, vicomte Amblard de. Marins et Soldats Français en Amérique pendant la guerre de l'Indépendance des États-Unis (Paris, 1903).

        Pilon, Edmond, ed., Mémoires de Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, (Paris, 1928).

       Pontgibaud, Charles Albert comte de Moré, chevalier de A French Volunteer of the War of Independence Robert B. Douglas, trans. and ed., (Paris, 1826).

        Rice, Howard C. Jr., and Anne S.K. Brown, eds., The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army 1780,1781,1782, 1783 2 vols., (Princeton and Providence, 1972

        Robenier, Louis. "Journal of the War in America, 1780-1783" Rhode Island Historical Society, Collections Vol.16, (1923), pp.65-78.

        Rochambeau, J. Memoirs of the Marshal Count de Rochambeau, Relative to the War of Independence of the United States M.W.E. Wright, ed., (New York, 1971; orig. 1838).

        Scott, Kenneth. "Rochambeau's American Wagoners, 1780-1783" The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 143, (July 1989), pp. 256-262.

       Scott, Samuel F. The Response of the Royal Army to the French Revolution. The Role and Development of the Line Army 1787-93 (Oxford, 1978)

        Scott, Samuel F. "Rochambeau's Veterans: A Case Study in the Transformation of the French Army" Proceedings, the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850 (Athens, 1979), pp. 155-163.

        Scott, Samuel F. "Foreign Mercenaries, Revolutionary War, and Citizen Soldiers in the Late Eighteenth Century" War and Society Vol. 2 (September 1984), pp. 42-58.

        Scott, Samuel F. "The Soldiers of Rochambeau's Expeditionary Corps: From the American Revolution to the French Revolution," in: La Révolution Américaine et l'Europe, Claude Fohlen and Jacques Godechot, eds., (Paris, 1979), pp. 565-578.

       Scott, Samuel F. " Strains in the Franco-American Alliance: The French Army in Virginia, 1781-82" in: Virginia in the American Revolution Richard A. Rutyna and Peter C. Stewart, eds., ( Norfolk, 1983), pp. 80-100.

        Scott, Samuel F. From Yorktown to Valmy: The Transformation of the French Army in an Age of Revolution (Niwot, CO, 1998).

        Selig, Robert A. "Private Flohr's America. From Newport to Yorktown and the Battle that won the War: A German Foot Soldier who fought for American Independence tells all about it in a newly discovered Memoir" American Heritage Vol. 43, No. 8, (December 1992), pp. 64-71.

        Selig, Robert A. "A German Soldier in New England During the Revolutionary War: The Account of Georg Daniel Flohr" Newport History (Fall 1993), pp. 48-65.

       Selig, Robert A. "A German Soldier in America, 1780-1783: The Journal of Georg Daniel Flohr" William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 50, No. 3, (July 1993), pp. 575-590.

        Selig, Robert A. "Georg Daniel Flohr's Journal: A New Perspective" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 15, No. 4, (Summer 1993), pp. 47-53.

        Selig, Robert A. "Private Flohr's Other Life: The young German fought for American Independence, went home, and returned as a man of peace" American Heritage Vol. 45, No. 6, (October 1994), pp. 94-95.

        Selig, Robert A. "America the Ungrateful: The Not-So-Fond Remembrances of Louis François Dupont d'Aubevoye, comte de Lauberdière" American Heritage Vol. 48, No. 1, (February 1997), pp. 101-106.

        Selig, Robert A. "Lauberdière's Journal. The Revolutionary War Journal of Louis François Bertrand d'Aubevoye, comte de Lauberdière" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 18, No. 1, (Autumn 1995), pp. 33-37.

        Simpson, Alan and Mary. "A new look at how Rochambeau quartered his army in Newport (1780-1781)" Newport History (Spring 1983), pp. 30-67;

        Stinchcombe, William C. The American Revolution and the French Alliance (Syracuse, 1969).

        Stone, Edwin M. Our French Allies... In the Great War of the American Revolution from 1778 to 1782 (Providence, 1884).

        Sturgill,Claude C. "Money for the Bourbon Army in the Eighteenth Century: The State within the State" War and Society Vol. 4, No. 2, (September 1986), pp. 17-30.

        Sturgill, Claude C. "Observations of the French War Budget 1781-1790" Military Affairs Vol. 48, (October 1984), pp. 180-187.

        Terry, Marian D. Old Inns of Connecticut (Hartford, 1937).

        Tröss, Rudolf Karl. Das Regiment Royal-Deux-Ponts (typescript, Zweibrücken, 1983).

        Van Tyne, Claude. "French Aid before the Alliance of 1778" American Historical Review Vol. 31, (1925), pp. 20-40.

        Wrangel, F. U. ed., Lettres d'Axel de Fersen a son père pendant la guerre de l'Indépendance d'amérique (Paris, 1929).