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ROCHAMBEAU, Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de (1755-1813). Manuscript signed ("Le Vcte de Rochambeau") "Résumé des moyens de détails que j'ai proposé pour l'Exactitude des Maneuvres de L'Ordonnance de l'infanterie du 1er juin 1776", n.p., n.d. In French, 14 pages, 310 x 202mm, 3 bifolia and one (separated) sheet, with a marginal annotation possibly in his father's hand on page two, blindstamped "ARCHIVES DE CHASTELLUX" at top right (light toning to top margin of several sheets). General Rochambeau's son drafts a proposal for a revised manual of arms for the French Army. A lengthy manuscript detailing a revised manual of arms, written out by General Rochambeau's son, who accompanied his father to America in 1780 as an aide-de-camp. The manual outlines all aspects of eighteenth century soldiering, from basic firing commands to large-scale maneuvers. Donatien-Marie would later lead the unsuccessful campaign to reassert French authority in Martinique and Santo Domingue that resulted in the establishment of the second independent nation in the Americas: Haiti. Later serving in Napoleon’s army, Rochambeau was mortally wounded at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. Provenance : François-Jean-de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chastellux (1734 -1788) – by descent to the consignor.