Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Letters for the years 1780 thru 1783

Newport, RI - 22 July 1780

The enemy are doing what they ought to do. Graves, immediately after having joined Arbuthnot, comes to cruise before us with nine or ten ships of the line, five frigates, and four other small vessels.

Newport, RI - 14 November 1780

If your Excellency does not find a moment to come and see this part of your army, I am afraid that the whole of it will desert, so great is their desire to see their General.

Williamsburg, VA - 5 February 1782

As, by the intelligences I had from your Excellency, and those I got from the flag, it appears that the reenforcement from New York for Charleston does not exceed thirteen hundred men

Williamsburg, VA - 27 February 1782

The legion de Lauzun by this time must be arrived at Charlotte Court-House. It will be needful that it stay there some time, because the men are almost quite naked

Williamsburg, VA - 8 June 1782

The Captain of a flag, arrived yesterday from New York, assures that he had sailed with thirty-six transports, escorted by three ships of war, going to Charleston and Savannah. They are empty, and it is believed they are going to evacuate those place

Philadelphia, PA - 17 July 1782

I had the honor to write to your Excellency that, at my departure from York in Virginia, I would leave in that place a detachment of four hundred French troops, which were to he joined by a corps of the Virginian militia

Princeton, NJ - 7 September 1782

The news which I have here of the British fleet, are that Admiral Pigot is got into New York with very few ships, himself in a bad state of health, and that Admiral Hood, with the greatest part of the fleet, has sailed for Halifax.

Hartford, CT - 30 October 1782

I received a letter from M. de Yaudreuil, saying that he is sorry to have appointed the 8th of next month for my arrival with my troops at Boston, because the men-of-war at Portsmouth are not yet ready

Paris, FRA - 13 July 1783

I see you at the glorious end of all your toils, and with the desire to come to France. Try, my dear General, to effectuate this project. Let nothing oppose itself to the idea.