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Castries, Charles Eugène Gabriel de la Croix, marquis de, 1727-1801

 Person

Biographical / Historical

Secrétaire d'État de la Marine, 1780-1787.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Documents relating to the French participation in the American Revolution

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 308
Abstract: Collection consists of documents relating to France's secret and open role on behalf of the American Revolution. Includes letters and documents related to Philippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson du Coudray; material on the mobilization of the French fleet, including letters and reports from Pierre-Louis, Chevalier de Monteil, Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, Charles Eugène Gabriel de la Croix, Marquis de Castries, and Bernardo de Gálvez; papers related to France's role in the Caribbean and...
Dates: 1768-1793

Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau papers relating to the French West Indies

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1576
Scope and Contents: The papers consist of 56 dossiers containing over 3600 documents relating to government of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and other French colonies in the West Indies, most dating from Rochambeau’s term as gouverneur général des Isles du Vent, 1792-1794. Also present are small amounts of papers created by earlier colonial administrators, 1762-1791, or relating to Rochambeau’s surrender to the British, parole, and return to Saint-Domingue, 1794-1802. Twenty-one maps, most in ink and watercolor,...
Dates: 1758-1802, bulk 1792-1794

Thomas Walpole Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 16
Abstract:

The Thomas Walpole Family Papers contain approximately 400 letters and other papers, mostly dating from the 1760s through the 1830s, that document the commercial, financial, political, legal, and diplomatic ventures of four generations of one branch of the Walpole family in England, being Thomas Walpole (1727-1803), his sons Thomas Walpole (1755-1840) and Lambert Theodore Walpole (1757-1798), grandson Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806-1898), and great-grandson Sir Spencer Walpole (1839-1907).

Dates: 1751-1972, bulk 1765-1835

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Antilles, Lesser -- Politics and government -- 18th century 1
Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. 1
Basse-Terre Island (Guadeloupe) 1
Cap-Haïtien (Haiti) 1
Caribbean Area -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 1