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ROCHAMBEAU, Jean-Baptiste Donatien, Comte de (1725-1807). Autograph letter signed (as 'com[m]a[ndan]t de l'armée du Nord') to [an Austrian official], Valenciennes, 24 July 1791, 2 pages, 4to.
Answering a complaint to the National Assembly about French patrols, mentioning an incident a month earlier in which some Tyrolian chasseurs had violated French territory, and reporting the satisfactory replies of the French commanders at Mons and Tournai who have punished the culprits: 'Au surplus j'ay donné l'ordre le plus severe dans toute l'etendüe de mon commandement de ne pas mettre le pied sur le territoire de l'empereur ny armé ni en uniforme quelconque'. The Austrian government is invited to indicate all its concerns about the frontier.
Rochambeau, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War in which he placed himself and his soldiers under Washington's command, was appointed to the command of the Armée du Nord from 1790-92.
Answering a complaint to the National Assembly about French patrols, mentioning an incident a month earlier in which some Tyrolian chasseurs had violated French territory, and reporting the satisfactory replies of the French commanders at Mons and Tournai who have punished the culprits: 'Au surplus j'ay donné l'ordre le plus severe dans toute l'etendüe de mon commandement de ne pas mettre le pied sur le territoire de l'empereur ny armé ni en uniforme quelconque'. The Austrian government is invited to indicate all its concerns about the frontier.
Rochambeau, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War in which he placed himself and his soldiers under Washington's command, was appointed to the command of the Armée du Nord from 1790-92.
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