101To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 4 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
the situation in which I do find my Self in this Country is So different from that of all others the french officers who Have Come to serve Here that it Does become necessary for me to take Extraordinary precautions in returning Home, otherwise I shall find my Self in worse circumstances for Having made Greater Sacrifices—my not Having been promoted after four years Services will be an...
102To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 4 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Colonel Armand, 4 Feb. 1780. On 6 Feb. , GW wrote to Armand acknowledging receipt of Armand’s letter “of the 4th.”
103To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 21 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I Have been Honor’d with the orders of your Exellency given to me in a lettre of the 5th Nbre the Contains of it were so nearly Connected with the Succés of a petition which I Had put at that time under the Consideration of Congréss that it was out of my power to answer sooner your favor —the promotions granted to my Country men in Consideration of small times of Services Had persuaded me that...
104To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 11 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
it was not in my power to finish sooner with Congress the business of the legion & yet I Have not anny prospect of Establishing that Corps on a proper footing & according to the Command I received from your Exellency —the board of war tells me, that, they Have no Clothing, arms , nor Horses & that they do not Expect to Have money to putchass thoses articles for the time they shall be wanted,...
105To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 17 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here yesterday after fivety days passage from france—I have been so lucky as to answer the purpose of my journey there—having with me the cloathing and equipment for the legion firelock and shoes for the foots men exepted—I know that a large quantity of the first of thoses articles was Send to Congress—& could not get the shoes at time to set of by the opertunity of the frigate we...
106To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 7 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your answer to my last lettre—by the formers thestimony of the patronage which your exellency granted to my military fortune & by the uncheangeable resolution in which you are thot to inter in to the motives & stepts conducive to restore what promotions out of regular course have make me lost, I must be convinced of the unpropriety of my past & further application on...
107To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 14 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
the remaining of the legion are quartered in a such sickly place that many of the men being sick & one died few days ago the officers wishes your exellency would permit them to take a quarter two or three miles further where the men can be better accommodated and keep better their health—the quarter which thy request to go at, is near the half way house no further than six miles from yorck....
108To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 25 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
1 I have not till this day made any rappert of the legion to your Exellency because I had not Received the Cloathing & accoutrement of that Corps, & of Course Could not form nor give any idea of the time at which he Could take to the field—at last the whole of the equipement arrived at richemond by water & I had it brought here by my own means, I mean in paying my self the carryage of it—five...
109To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 9 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform your Excellency that the officers of the legion under my Command have accepted of the Commutation of the half pay for life into five years full pay—I take the liberty to inclose here a copy of their determination on the Subject—I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir Your Excellency’s the most obdt hb. srt DNA : Item 149, Letters and Reports from...
110To George Washington from Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 30 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am this instant favoured with a lettre of the baron de Steuben a Copy of which I have the honor to inclose; as this is the first notice I have officially received relating to the society of Cincinnati , I have reason to be still at a loss to know whether the honor intended by the conference of that order on the americain’s officers extend to foreigners who have served in it with some...