Observations du Marquis de Vaudreuil sur le combat du 12 avril 1782 : les memoires y inclus sont les originaux

Observations du Marquis de Vaudreuil sur le combat du 12 avril 1782 : les memoires y inclus sont les originaux

Memoire du Mis de Vaudreuil au Conseil de guerre extraordinaire de marine a L'orient

[S.l.], 1784.

[2], 29, [3] p. ; 36 cm. (fol.)

MSS L2001F19 M [Bound]

(OCoLC)47980826

Caption title, p. 1: Memoire du Mis de Vaudreuil au Conseil de guerre extraordinaire de marine a L'orient.
At head p. 1: no. 2.
On p. [31]: De la variation aimantee sur le globe terrestre.
Paper wraps, included in pagination, are of different paper measuring 33 cm.
Entire document housed in blue paper slip case with leather title label stamped in gold: Marquis de Vaudreuil - Memoire manuscript sur la bataille des Saintes. 1784.
Vaudreuil, Chef d'escadre during the American revolutionary war, responds point by point to the charges of Amiral de Grasse concerning the Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782, when Vice Admiral Rodney captured de Grasse. Vaudreuil was wounded in that action.
Also mentioned are MM. Claude, comte de Mithon de Genouilly, Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville, Marerchal de Castries, and his own brother, all of whom later became original members of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Possibly a retained copy.

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