2° BATAILLON COLONIAL - Letter signed Count DUPONT DE L'ÉTAN - Lot 513

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2° BATAILLON COLONIAL - Letter signed Count DUPONT DE L'ÉTAN - Lot 513
2° BATAILLON COLONIAL - Letter signed Count DUPONT DE L'ÉTANG Minister of War - to Lieutenant-General GRENIER Inspecteur-Général d'Infanterie - Paris July 29, 1814 : "... For the time being, nothing must be changed in the organization of the 2nd Colonial Battalion, which has been transferred from the island of CORSICA to MARSEILLE. You will confine yourself to an inspection of this Corps, in order to ascertain its situation... You will have the foreigners discharged immediately... You will designate to me the men suitable for active service, who could be readmitted to the line...". 1 folio page.
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