(YORKTOWN SIEGE OF) LAUZUN ARMAND LOUIS DE GONTAUT DUC DE Au

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"I WILL BE HAPPY IF WE COULD HAVE SOME THINK TO DO WITH TARLETON" (YORKTOWN, SIEGE OF.) LAUZUN, ARMAND-LOUIS DE GONTAUT, DUC DE. Autograph Letter Signed, "DLauzun" as Brigadier General of Lauzun's Legion, to Brigadier General George Weedon, hoping for combat with British Colonel Tarleton. With franking signature "BG DLauzun" on address panel. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; small seal hole. Gloucester Court House Camp [VA], 30 September 1781

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This French officer's fighting spirit was strong, his command of the English language somewhat less so: "I will order my regiment . . . to march with your troops, and take the waggons ready agreable to yours orders. . . . I will be happy if we could have some think to do with Tarleton and Simco. I wish wery much to make farther acquaintance with those gentlemens. I intend to command myself the Legion." Lauzun's Legion did make further acquaintance with Colonel Tarleton of the British army, in a skirmish five days later. Quoted in Ward, Duty, Honor or Country, page 223.