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Excerpt from The Journal of Claude Blanchard: Commissary of the French Auxiliary Army Sent to the United States During the American Revolution, 1780-1783 During a sojourn of some years in Europe I occupied myself in collecting books, engravings or other materials for a contribution to American and French history, the subject of which did not seem to me to have been thoroughly studied or fairly narrated. It was intended that the work should be a careful history of the part taken by the French in the American war for independence. The first part of the work, giving a history of the expeditionary corps under Rochambeau, from its embarkation to its return, with a full narrative of the military operations in which it was engaged, was published in Paris in 1872 The second part, containing notices of the regiments and fleets, and of the officers who served in our cause, whether as volunteers, or under the orders of the French government, is now ready and will shortly appear in that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.