Major Richard Brooks Robert letter, 1794 April 30.

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Major Richard Brooks Robert letter, 1794 April 30.

The collection consists of one letter written by Major Richard Brooks Robert from Fort Fidius, Georgia to Senator Ralph Izard of South Carolina. In it, Major Robert requests help in obtaining command in the Southern Seaport Garrisons by seconding his application to General Knox. The letter is dated April 30, 1794.

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Izard, Ralph, c. 1742-1804

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Ralph Izard (January 23, 1741/1742 – May 30, 1804) was an American planter, diplomat, and politician from Charleston County, South Carolina. He notably served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress and as one of South Carolina's first two United States Senators. Born at The Elms, his family's plantation near Charleston in the Province of South Carolina, Izard spent most of his childhood and youth studying in England: he attended a school in Hackney, London, and matriculated as a fellow-co...

United States. Army

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Robert, Richard Brooks.

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"Izard, Ralph, a Delegate and a Senator from South Carolina; born at "The Elms," near Charleston, S.C., January 23, in 1741 or 1742; pursued classical studies in England; returned to America briefly in 1764, but went abroad to reside, taking up his residence in London in 1771; moved to Paris, France, in 1776; appointed commissioner to the Court of Tuscany by the Continental Congress in 1776, but was recalled in 1779; returned to America in 1780; pledged his large estate in South Carolina for the...