Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROCHAMBEAU, JEAN BAPTISTE, COMTE DE. Letter Signed, "C J de Rochambeau," as Lieutenant General, to an unidentified recipient, asking for help in relocating the horses of the Legion de Lauzun. 1 page, 4to, with detached blank; browned at edges. Williamsburg [VA], 2 June 1782
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The Americans and their French allies had defeated the main English force at Yorktown, but peace had not been declared, and the soldiers and horses still needed to be supported by a war-torn land. "There only remains grain and forage untill the 10th. I send the order for their relocation to Petersburgh, where we have found six miles from that place a great pasture. . . . Send an American quartermaster to make the establishment, jointly with Mr. Dumas." Provenance: Parke-Bernet sale, 6 December 1938, lot 204.