1To George Washington from François-Jean de Beauvoir, marquis de Chastellux, 22 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received with the greatest sensibility the new token of your indulgences and partiality for me, nothing else could reconcile me with a dull winter spent at such a distance of your excellency. I had taken such a pleasing habit of serving under your command, and of enjoying your presence that I am apt to believe that I live no more in america, but exiled in some remote corner of the...
2To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 22 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I send to your Excellency copies of a Letter I received from General Greene and of my answer. I have nothing to add to the reflections that they contain: Your Excellency knows that the french corps must not be divided, and I believe that the interest of the thirteen United States is to look on that corps as a reserve to be carried entire either to the right or the Left in the important...