Virtual Library
We’ve assembled this Virtual Library to provide you with articles and papers related to the people and history surrounding Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters. Our grateful thanks to the many contributors.
The Franco-American Encampment of 1781
Distinguished author and scholar, Dr. Robert Selig, has devoted years to researching this seminal event that changed the course of the Revolutionary War. Much of this book is based on never published primary sources. The positions of the 9,000 Continental and French troops throughout the hills and valleys of Greenburgh, where they marched, how they were supplied, and their everyday life in camp are described in detail. Click here.
Washington’s Drummer Boy
Historian Lindsey Wood writes this engaging account of Alexander Milliner, a boy who at the age of ten was a drummer for the Continental Army in the Philipsburg Encampment. Click here.
John Odell Biography
Erik Weiselberg, PhD has written this biographical sketch of Greenburgh Patriot John Odell. Discover how this intrepid nineteen year-old immediately volunteered for the patriot cause, and how his resourcefulness during the dangerous and lengthy period of war in Westchester County contributed to the American victory. That after the war he lived in the farmhouse, which served as French General Rochambeau’s headquarters. Click here.
The Stakes
July and August of 1781 brought the American and French Armies together for the first time, and the vital actions taken then would decide the fate of a nation. Historian Richard Borkow describes just exactly what was at stake. Click here.
Westchester County During the American Revolution
At the start of the American Revolution, the county of Westchester was the richest and most populous of the rural counties of New York. By war's end, most of the county, especially a twenty-mile-wide region labeled the neutral ground, would be totally devastated. Historian and novelist Harry Schenawolf of the Revolutionary War Journal pens this gripping account. Click here.
Water Trails of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
Dr. Robert Selig has recently completed another scholarly report about the Revolutionary War events of 1781-82. This new report focuses on the water trails of the Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary route in the Hudson River Valley. It particularly gives a full description of the Hudson River and the important role it played. Click here.