Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SUPPLIES FOR THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN (YORKTOWN, SIEGE OF.) CHOISY, CLAUDE GABRIEL, MARQUIS DE. Note Signed, "Choisy," as Major General, to Brigadier General George Weedon, ordering Weedon to requisition supplies. 1 page, 8vo; minor foxing. "Head Quarters" [Gloucester, VA?], 7 October 1781
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Choisy was Weedon's commanding officer at the Siege of Yorktown. Here, during the final weeks of the siege, he orders Weedon: "You will use every means in your power to obtain by empress or otherwise, eight hundred spades or shovels, one hundred axes, one hundred pick axes, and one hundred hatchets." Quoted in Ward, Duty, Honor or Country, page 226.