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Rostaing, Juste-Antoine-Henri-Marie-Germaine, marquis de, 1740-1826 to Henry Knox [in French]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09556 Author/Creator: Rostaing, Juste-Antoine-Henri-Marie-Germaine, marquis de, 1740-1826 Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter Date: 24 October 1782 Pagination: 2 p. ; 19.3 x 31.6 cm. Order a Copy

Docket, in English, notes "From the Marquis Rostaing acknowledging the receipt of two mortars taken in the enemy redoubts at York Town in Virginia... "

Rostaing, Juste-Antoine-Henri-Marie-Germaine, marquis de, 1740-1826
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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