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Chastellux, Francois Jean, marquis de (1734-1788) to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03160 Author/Creator: Chastellux, Francois Jean, marquis de (1734-1788) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 June 1785 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 23.4 x 18.3 cm. Order a Copy

General Chastellux (signed Chastelleaux) requests that Knox admit a French doctor who served in the Revolutionary War to the Society of the Cincinnati. Writes, "... you remember very well dear general, that after the siege of york you left behind a great number of sicks and that an american hospital was settled at Williamsburg... no american physician attended there, and doctor coste only took care of those soldiers, for the whole winter." Notes that the Marquis de Lafayette supports Coste's acceptance into the Society. Also mentions that Coste saved Chastellux's life.

Jean-Francois Coste was Surgeon-General of the army of Rochambeau.

Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734-1788
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Coste, Jean-Francois, 1741-1819

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