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Journals and records of the campaigns of Rochambeau's army, 1781-1782

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Description: Records of the campaigns of Rochambeau's army in 1781 and 1782 kept by an identified officer of the Soissonnais Regiment.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1781-1782
Call number: mssHM 621
Additional description: The manuscripts includes: an account of the voyage from Brest to Rhode Island (ff. 2-9); two itineraries -- "Précis des Opérations et des Marches de l'Armée Combiné francaise et américaine pendenat le Campagne de 1781" (ff. 10-41) and "Campagne de l'année 1782" (ff. 57-68); and "Journal du Siége d'York en Virginie," by Querenet de La Combe (1731-1788), Lieutenant colonel, Royal Corps of Engineers; acting chief engineer for the French army at the Siege of Yorktown (f. 42-58); are accompanied by the maps in pen and watercolor. Also included is a note on Benedict Arnold

Orderly book of Marion's Brigade of South Carolina militia, 1781, Feb. 16 - 1782, Dec. 15

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Orderly book of Marion's brigade covering the period from Feb. 16, 1781 through Dec. 15, 1782. The last entry is Marion's address to his troops congratulating them on the "evacuation of Charles Town" and announcing the dissolution of the militia

mssHM 622

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Journal of the Proceedings

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Journal of the inquiry into the foraging at Dobbs Ferry in the summer of 1781 conducted by a committee of the Eastern Department between February 14 and July 2, 1782.

mssHM 668

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British garrison of Gibraltar records, with copies of the accounts of the siege of Gibraltar and the battle of Bunker Hill

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Records of the British garrison of Gibraltar: "Brass and Iron Ordnance Mounted in the Garrison of Gibraltar 1782," a list of the mortars, "Heights and distances as taken by the Engineers at Gibraltar," and "Bearings and distances of the Stations across the Bay of Gibraltar.' Also included are: "A Cursory Relation of an attack made by the Enemy on the 13th of Sept. 1782 with some Incidental Occurences Preceding it," followed by the "Return of Officers killed wounded & died of their wounds at Gibraltar from the 12th of April 1781 to the 31st of October 1782," and "Shot & killed wounded &c in 1783," and a dispatch of M. D'Arcon "relative to the Proceedings of the 13th of September 1782."

mssHM 52688

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Charles L'ainé's logbook

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Concerns operations in the West Indies as well as Yorktown, Va. Contains watercolor drawings of a ship, an armillary sphere, and points of the compass. The journal has sometimes been identified by a title page on the first page of the text, "Receuil Contanans les Campagnes..." Covers the period from January 1781 to August, 18, 1782. Text in French.

mssHM 551

Orderly book of Nathanael Greene, 1781, Apr. 1 - July 25

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Orderly book of the Southern Department under the command of Nathanael Greene kept during his operations against Rawdon in the spring and summer of 1781

mssHM 683

Journal of an officer of the 47th Regiment of Foot, after 1783

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A fair copy of a journal kept by an unnamed officer of the 47th Regiment of Foot, probably of Major Acland's Grenadier Battalion, from April 19, 1775 through October of 1777. The journal covers the battles of Lexington and Concord (ff. 1-5), the siege of Boston (ff. 5- 23), and Burgoyne's invasion and the Saratoga Campaign,(ff. 23 -- 101), including the articles of surrender at Saratoga. The text comprises daily entries, copies of general orders, various returns and other regimental records, and routes from Saratoga to Cambrdige, Mass. and Charlottesville, Va. Also included are "Return of the Killed and wounded and Prisoners of the Army under the Command of His Excellency Lieutenant General Burgoyne in the course of the Campaign" (ff. 80 v. -- 87), "Return of the British Troops under the command of His Excellency Leiutenant General Burgoyne Camp at Saratoga. October 16, anno 1777," and the "Return of the Army of the United States of America Commanded by Major General Gates. Camp at Saratoga, Oct. 16, anno Domini 1777," (ff. 88-90), copies of various general orders of Burgoyne's command of issued from July 19 to June 1777, and an incomplete account of Lady Harriet Acland's ordeal, evidently taken from Burgoyne's memoirs (ff. 103-109 v.) The copy was probably created in the late 1780s or early 1790s.

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Journals and records of the campaigns of Rochambeau's army, 1781-1782

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Orderly book of Marion's Brigade of South Carolina militia, 1781, Feb. 16 - 1782, Dec. 15

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