(WAR OF SEVEN YEARS, 1756-1763) Letter signed DAUVET (Comte - Lot 79

(WAR OF SEVEN YEARS, 1756-1763) Letter signed DAUVET (Comte des Marais) to Louis Théodore AUDRAULT Marquis de LANGERON (1700-1773) Lieutenant General of the King's Armies. Letter written from HORNEBURG (Germany, Lower Saxony) on August 21, 1762, between two French victories in Germany. - 2pp in-8°: "I have received, Sir, your letter of today written at nine o'clock in the morning with the news of BORGTEMFURT for which I am obliged to you, and the package of news from M. D'HERVERVILLE. It is a blue party and assembled Coquins who run in the country and who hold themselves between BOCKUM, STEIT, and GELSKIRCH according to the report of the Baron d'ELBREFELD, I beg you to mandate it on my behalf to the Bailly de GROLLIER. Mr de MARABAIL asks where I deem it appropriate to place a warehouse for the sick in case I move away from here. I don't want any. I'll send out the sick every four days with the empty bread wagons. I'll send one of the two surgeons with them to take care of them while they roll, and he'll return to me by the next convoy. M. DARRIFAT mandated me to have written on behalf of the General Officers in command of the Lower Rhine, that as there would be many soldiers, either in garrison or in hospital, who would need the second water season, it was necessary for them to make arrangements to send them all together under the leadership of officers or sergeants, depending on the number...".