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To George Washington from Charles-Bertin-Gaston Chapuy de Tourville, 21 November 1789

From Charles-Bertin-Gaston Chapuy de Tourville

Calais, France, 21 Nov. 1789. Requests membership in the Society of the Cincinnati for the officers of the régiment d’Auvergne (formerly the régiment de Gatinais).

ALS, in French, DSoC.

Charles-Bertin-Gaston Chapuy de Tourville (1740–1809) entered the French service in 1755 and by April 1776 had risen to the rank of major in the régiment de Gâtinais. He served with the comte d’Estaing in Rhode Island, was wounded during the siege of Savannah, and participated in the Yorktown campaign. He eventually was accorded membership in the Society of the Cincinnati.

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    To George Washington from Charles-Bertin-Gaston Chapuy de Tourville, 21 November 1789
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    Chapuy de Tourville, Charles-Bertin-Gaston
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    21 November 1789

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    “To George Washington from Charles-Bertin-Gaston Chapuy de Tourville, 21 November 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0219. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 8 September 1789 – 15 January 1790, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 314.]