To George Washington from Colonel Choin, 1 June 1780

From Colonel Choin

paris le 1er juin 1780.

Excellence

permettés moy de proffitter du départ de M. de la Colombe pour me rappeler dans votre souvenir, et vous offrir mon respectueux hommage:1 j’envie le Sort de Cet officier puisqu’il va vous rejoindre. penetré des bontes que vous aves eû pour moy en amerique,2 l’instant le plus heureux de ma vie Seroit Celuy, ou il me seroit permis de retourner aupres de vous; mon attachement Seroit satisfait Si je pouvois trouver l’occasion de vous prouver en frange toute ma reconnoissange. jay l’honneur dêtre avec un profond respect Excellençe Votre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur

De Choin Colonel d’infantrie

ALS, DLC:GW.

Choin sends GW his respects. Despite Choin’s desire to see GW once more, the two never met again.

1. Captain Louis-Saint-Ange, chevalier Morel de La Colombe came to the United States with Lafayette in 1777 and served as an aide-de-camp after Congress commissioned Lafayette a major general. La Colombe returned to France in fall 1779 and sailed for Boston in summer 1780 to rejoin Lafayette (see Lafayette to La Luzerne, 24 Aug., and to the Prince de Poix, 3 Sept., in Lafayette Papers description begins Stanley J. Idzerda et al., eds. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790. 5 vols. Ithaca, N.Y., 1977-83. description ends , 3:153–54, 164–67).

2. Choin had served as Vice Admiral d’Estaing’s aide-de-camp and carried dispatches to GW (see d’Estaing to GW, 8 July 1778).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: To George Washington from Colonel Choin, 1 June 1780
Author: Choin, André-Michel-Victor, marquis de
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 1 June 1780

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Colonel Choin, 1 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0184. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, pp. 279–280.]