Custine, Adam Philip, Count de, 1740-1793 to Henry Knox [Request for supplies].

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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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