(Revolutionary War -- French Military, 1781) Letter to Officer in 1st Royal Engineers under Rochambeau at Newport R.I. Folded letter in French datelined at Bordeaux, Feb. 25, 1781, from Jonathan Frere to "Monsieur D'Opterre, Capitaine en premiere au Corps Royal du Genie a l'Armee de Monsr. de Rochambeau a Newport Rodislan en Amerique Continentale a Newport", according to the writer this was sent by the Venus and enclosed another letter, intact red seal with signet ring impression, writer reports death of King of Prussia, declaration of war by Holland on England, mentions a nephew taken prisoner at Barbados, etc., Very Fine and rare French military letter from the American Revolutionary War, the recipient, Captain Henri Crublier d'Opterre, distinguished himself at the Siege of Yorktown and kept a manuscript account of the engagement (held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University)

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