Adam Philippe Custine A.L.S., au Camp Bushtown, 28 August 1782 : to an unidentified person

Adam Philippe Custine A.L.S., au Camp Bushtown, 28 August 1782 : to an unidentified person

Bushtown, [Md.] 1782

[2] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

MSS L1971.61.2 M

Concerns embarkation of a regiment, probably for crossing the Chesapeake: "Bien entendu que les batteaux excedens le nombre deceux quil faut absolument pour le passage du Regiment, doivent continuer a passer; sans interruption, les voitures qui seroint encore a passer, de l'artillerie a l'arrivee du Reg.t. Les equipages du Reg.t de St. Onge [sic] partirons imediatement apres le Regt et l'artillerie du pare et l'ambulance a 6 heur /2."|In March, 1780, Custine accepted command of the Saintonge Infantry in the Auxiliary Army, and came with it to Rhode Island. On 5 December, 1781, he was promoted to Marechal de Camp for his services at Yorktown. -- A. B. Gardiner. The Order of the Cincinnati in France, p. 76.|Custine's regiment arrived at Yorktown in September, 1781. This letter is apparently an attempt to coordinate with his unnamed colleague (Deux-Ponts? (Christian, Marquis de Deux-Ponts, Comte de Forbach was Brigadier-General d' Infanterie; Guillame Deux Ponts, was also with Rochambeau's forces); Laval? Lauzun? as his Saintonge regiment travelled north with Rochambeau from Williamsburg, where they had wintered after Yorktown.|Custine was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in France.|Partial watermark at left margin

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