/ Letter : New Windsor, to Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1780 December 23

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Title: Letter : New Windsor, to Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1780 December 23
Creator: Washington, George, 1732-1799, author
Contributor: Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794, addressee
Date Created and/or Issued: 1780-12-23
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
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Description: Autograph letter, signed, describing Washington's receipt of the news of the death of Ternay on December 15. Washington confirms that Destouches will succeed Ternay as commander of His Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Newport. The letter is dated December 23, 1780, at Washington's headquarters in New Windsor, New York. The verso is blank. Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent: 1 letter (2 p.) ; 34 cm.
Identifier: mssDE 73
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/10370
Language: English
Subject: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794
Ternay, Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac, 1722-1780
New Windsor (N.Y.)
Newport (R.I.)
Admirals--Correspondence
Admirals--France
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Letters (correspondence) United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (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 1
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926.

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