Journal of Pierre Joseph Jeunot, 1776-1821.

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Journal of Pierre Joseph Jeunot, 1776-1821.

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The journal that Jeunot kept during his service in the West India Islands and Virginia. The manuscript contains detailed information on vessels of the French fleet, the combined French and Spanish fleets, together with a list 124 English vessels, and gives detailed accounts of the French operations at Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Kitts, Tobago, and St. Christopher as well as a long account of the engagement in Chesapeake Capes (Sept. 5, 1781). The manuscript also includes the Articles of Capitulation of the Islands of Tobago and St. Christopher, as well as the "Capitulation of York in Virginia made between Lord Cornwallis Commander General of the British Troops in Virginia and Maryland..." and a list of the French regiments engaged in the siege of Yorktown, together with a list of the ships engaged and the names of their commanders. Also included are contains directions for making fuses, disquisitions of the artillery employed in the French fleet, some poems, religious reflections, scattered daily entries penned in the early 1800s (in a different hand), etc. The manuscript contains ten watercolor drawings of the vessels that Jeunot served on, including the shelling of the Zele by the British For Brimstonhill in St. Christopher in Jan. 1782 and a panoramic view of the French and English fleets at Chesapeake Bay.

122 leaves, 33 cm., three bound volumes; includes ten watercolor drawings.

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Jeunot, Pierre Joseph, fl. 1774-1783.

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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Henri-Hector d'Estaing was born in Ravel, France, on November 24, 1729, the son of Charles-François d'Estaing, the Marquis de Salliant, and Marie-Henriette Colbert de Maulevrier. He served as a military officer during the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. He spent most of the latter conflict in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1762, and was governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1764-1766. D'Estaing was promoted to vice admiral i...

Jeunot, Pierre Joseph, fl. 1773-1783.

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Pierre Joseph Jeunot, a French soldier who served in the West Indies and Virginia during the American Revolution. In 1773 Jeunot enlisted to the Division of Toulon of the Corps of Royal Infantry of the French Navy (Corps Royal d'infanterie de la Marine). From 1776 to 1783 he served as a fusilier and then a "canonnier-servant" onboard of the vessels Le Cameleon, Le Lion, Le Caton, La Magicienne, L'Alexandre, and Le Zele, taking part in the operations of the French fleet in the West Indies and the...