A Guide to the Georges LeClerc Collection of
Revolutionary War Papers of French Commanders,
1780-1786 LeClerc, Georges, Collection of
Revolutionary War Papers of French Commanders, 1780-1786
MS 31.17
A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 31.17
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
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Preferred Citation
Georges LeClerc Collection of Revolutionary War Papers
of French Commanders, Manuscript 31.17, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1931.
Alternative Form
Also available on microfilm
M-1551 , in transcripion TR/71
(with translations), and as photocopies PH/16.
Letters (in French) of French commanders in the American
Revolution. They include material on the French campaigns
around Newport, R. I.; a map drawn for the siege of Yorktown,
Va.; letters written from Williamsburg, Va., and Lebanon, Pa.,
regarding the conduct of the war; letters from Versailles to
the governor of Tobago; and letters from Lafayette to M. Le
Noir regarding negotiations for a treaty of commerce between
France and the United States, 1786. There are also projected
itineraries for the French army's march from Phillipsburg and
White Plains to Philadelphia, and from Baltimore to
Gloucester, Va. Among the signatures are those of de
Bouill鬠de Castries, de Damas, de La Perouse, de
Lauzun, de Vaudreuil, Rochambeau, and Viomenil.