Extract from "Travels in North America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782", 1924.

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Extract from "Travels in North America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782", 1924.

The typed extract relates the visit of the Marquis de Chastellux to David Steele, Revolutionary War soldier. Chastellux tells of seeing the bone fragment sabered from Steele's head by a British soldier at the battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6815647

University of Virginia. Library

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Steele, David, ca. 1756-ca. 1840.

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Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734-1788

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