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Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de (1730-1817) [Related to the artillery of Rochambeau's army] [In French]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10016 Author/Creator: Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de (1730-1817) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1 January 1781 Pagination: 3 p. ; 37.7 cm x 24.2 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by "d'Aboville," Colonel Francois Marie, comte de Aboville. Also signed by Gau as commissary of artillery and by Nadal as director of the artillery park. A third signature is illegible. Lists artillery equipment and munitions for a siege by the army of the Comte de Rochambeau for the 1781 campaign.

Library of Congress lists Aboville's first name as Marie Francois, but almost every other source available lists it as Francois Marie.

Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807

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