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Title: Letter : Newport, to Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1781 April 20
Creator: Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807, author
Contributor: Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794, addressee
Date Created and/or Issued: 1781-04-20
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
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Description: Autograph letter, signed, from Rochambeau to Destouches, dated 20 April 1781, in Newport, Rhode Island. The letter is composed of a single folded sheet, with manuscript text on the first page. The fourth page bears an address to "Monsieur le chevalier Destouches, commandant ... du roy ; "en Vada" and a red wax seal. Pages 2-3 are blank. Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent: 1 letter (4 p.) ; 23 cm.
Identifier: mssDE 11
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/10089
Language: French
French
Subject: Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807
Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794
Admirals--France--Correspondence
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations
Letters (correspondence) France 18th century. (aat)
Letters (correspondence) United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Military records France 18th century. (aat)
Military records United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Source: Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804 (bulk 1780-1781) ; Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
mssDE Box 2
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926.

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