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Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de (1730-1817) Account of the guns and principal artillery ammunitions compounding both equipage for the seige and field in the Rochambeau's Army at 28 January

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10017 Author/Creator: Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de (1730-1817) Place Written: Newport, Rhode Island Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 28 January 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 37.7 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. Docket, in Samuel Shaw's hand, indicates, "Ordnance stores with the French Army at Newport. 28 Jany 1781." This is an English-language copy of GLC02437.10016.

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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