31To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 16 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send to your Excellency, my Letter for the Mis de Vaudreuil. My sentiments I am happy to find perfectly coincide with yours, on the objects mentioned in the Letter. I beg of your Excellency to write to Gor hancock that he may give the proper directions for the Speedily assembling of the militia, in case of a signal from the Mis de Vaudreuil, that he sees the British fleet...
32To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 7 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send to your Excellency a Letter which the chevalier de la Luzerne begs you would send by the Dragoons established on the road to Boston for carrying on the correspondance. It contains a generous offer made by congress to the King of a 74. gun ship. The News which I have here of the British fleet, are that Admiral Pigot is got into Newyork with very few ships, himself in a...
33To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 23 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
After a mature consideration, I have resolved to follow the same route with the army which We took Last year Thro’ Trenton Princeton &ca—We shall there have the convenience of our ovens and Establishments on that road with which The Troops are already acquainted. The Legion de Lauzun shall march on our right, the same way that the american Troops followed Last year and I hope by that means,...
34To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 18 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
The artillery and the Troops from york begin to arrive, and Mr De La Villebeune with the big ships wait only for the tide to cross over the bar. he has convoyed one half of the american Artillery and has left a small brigg mounting 16. guns to escort the rest, whilst the frigate the Emerald is watching over the capes untill their departure. Mr DeLauberdiere is arrived to day with your...
35To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 13 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
According to the news which I have from York town the convoy of our heavy artillery must have sailed on the 10th or 11th and I expect it here with the first favorable wind. I had designed to set the army in motion, by regiments, on the 19th of this month to go and Join your Excellency, when I received from the Chevalier de La Luzerne a copy of the Letter that you have received from Sir Guy...
36To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 30 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send to your Excellency a Copy of the Letter which I have received from Mr De Vaudreuil and of my answer. I beg you would give to Mr De Choisy a Letter for that General officer with an explanation of your opinion about Penobscott. If your Excellency thinks fit to undertake that expedition, not withstanding the risks of meeting a superior fleet which naturally must not be...
37Washington’s Conference with Rochambeau, 19 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
Having no certain data, upon which a plan of Campaign can be determined, I could only give opinions upon certain hypothesis—These his Excellency Count de Rochambeau has had an oppertunity of examing, fully. It is needless for me therefore to repeat them in this place. New York in my judgment, has ever been the primary object of our arms—Charles Town, for certain political considerations which...
38To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 17 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
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 400 french Troops, which were to be joined by a corps of the Virginian Militia, to assure the possession of that harbour to the french navy now there, and that may arrive in future. At the moment of my Leaving that place, the American militia were just beginning...
39To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 4 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I received this moment your Excellency’s Letter of the 24th Last month. You will have seen by my letters to the Chevalier De La Luzerne that, As we are come to the 1st of July without any plan of campaign being arrived or any of the officers whom I had sent to France being returned, and the season being very much advanced, it has been necessary to resolve upon some thing or another, from a...
40To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 8 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
In the Moment I was writing to your Excellency, I received a Confirmation of the Success of the Engagement on the 12th of April which by all the Reports from the Cape, Port au prince & all the Intelligences for N. York & Jamaica seem very bad for us. I was proposing to you that as there was not yet any plan for the Campaign decided at our Court and as I waited with the greatest Impatience for...