Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807 to Patrick Henry

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GLC04837.01
GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
March 28, 1782
Author/Creator
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807
Title
to Patrick Henry
Place Written
Williamsburg, Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

General Rochambeau transmits a copy of a letter (not included) he wrote to the Marquis de Choisy (possibly Claude Gabriel Marquis de Choisy). States that the letter discussed Choisy's confusion regarding differentiation between freedmen and enslaved people serving in the army. Informs Henry that Choisy caused "all the negroes who were with the Legion ... to be taken up indiscriminately."

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