The Battle of Rhode Island Association

Zoom Lecture – François-Jean de Chastellux and American Independence

The Society of the Cincinnati Anderson House 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC, DC

    François-Jean Chastellux, a major general in the French army, member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and cousin of the marquis de Lafayette, played a central role in the Franco-American alliance during the Revolutionary War. Recently, a collection of more than four thousand pages of Chastellux’s private papers were discovered at his estate […]

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