History and journal of Charles Joseph de Losse de Bayac [microform] : papers, 1763-1783.

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History and journal of Charles Joseph de Losse de Bayac [microform] : papers, 1763-1783.

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The history, n.d., of the Revolutionary War in the United States from 1763 to 1779, consists of second hand accounts of events leading up to the beginning of the war in 1775, the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, George Washington, the siege of Boston, Mass., the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and operations in Canada. The history continues with the Declaration of Independence, the British occupation and evacuation of Philadelphia, Pa., John Burgoyne, Burgoyne's Invasion, Charles Henri d'Estaing, General Cornwallis, Nathanael Greene, Daniel Morgan, and most major campaigns of the first half of the war. The journal, 1779-1783, of Losse de Bayac following his arrival in the United States, includes his first hand account of his arrival in Rhode Island, crossing the Hudson River, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1781, the siege of Yorktown, Rodney's victory over Grasse, preparations for a combined French and Spanish attack on Jamaica halted by the Peace of Paris, Losse de Bayac's voyage back to France via Puerto Rico and Portobelo, Panama, Dunkards and the Ephrata Cloister community, bundling, and Quakers. Losse de Bayac's journal also includes extracts of a letter, 1782, from Jean La Pérouse regarding an expedition to Hudson Bay and transcripts of letters, 1781-1783, of Cornwallis, Nathanael Greene, Daniel Morgan and George Washington.

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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