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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01268-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 28 October 1781
- Author/Creator
- Custine, Adam Philip, Count de, 1740-1793
- Title
- to Henry Knox [Request for supplies].
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Signed in text. Asks Knox to exchange three drums and provide a fourth, and exchange cartridge boxes also. Also mentions that the Major [François-Louis Teissèdre de] Fleury "paid his respects to the general." Colonel Custine led the Régiment de Saintonge, which was selected in 1780 by the Count de Rochambeau to participate in the French expeditionary force to America that aided in the siege of Yorktown.
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