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Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817 Account of the guns and principal artillery ammunitions compounding both equipage for the seige and field in the Rochambeau's Army at 28 January

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10017 Author/Creator: Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817 Place Written: Newport, Rhode Island Type: Manuscript document signed Date: January 28, 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Height: 37.7 cm, Width: 24.2 cm Order a Copy

Signed by "d'Aboville," Colonel Francois Marie, comte de Aboville. Also signed by Gau as commissary of artillery and by Nadal as director of the artillery park. A third signature is illegible. Docket, in Samuel Shaw's hand, indicates, "Ordnance stores with the French Army at Newport. 28 Jany 1781." This is an English-language copy of GLC02437.10016.

Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807

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