Letter signed. 2 pages, folio. With enclosure, translation into French of letters of Gates and Sumter, 5 pages, folio. Philadelphia.

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Title: Letter signed. 2 pages, folio. With enclosure, translation into French of letters of Gates and Sumter, 5 pages, folio. Philadelphia.
Creator: From the Collection: Rochambeau family
Published / Created: 1780 Sep 2
Description: The enclosure gives the news of the disastrous defeat at Camden. La Luzerne comments that this defeat opens all of the Carolinas to British invasion, which he predicts will soon come. He also speaks of purchases of horses being made near Lancaster, Pa., and of the expected arrival of dispatches from France on the Alliance, which had just arrived at Boston.
Provenance: Gift of Paul Mellon, 1992.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 146

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Box 2, folder 130

Access: Public
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Citation: Rochambeau Papers and Rochambeau Family Cartographic Archive. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.