Scope and Content Note
The papers of the Comte Louis-Alexandre Andrault de Langeron (1761-1831) and the Marquis Charles-Claude de Langeron, French military officers, span the years 1761-1785 and consist of bound volumes of correspondence and other material relating to French military and naval participation in the American Revolution. The papers include lists of the numerical strength of the French fleet at Brest, 1776-1778; signals and rules for the division of prizes in the French Navy; regimental rosters of troops at Brest, 1777-1779; charts and reports on Comte d’Orvillers’s defeat of Admiral Viscount Augustus Keppel Keppel, 1778; intelligence reports on the British navy, 1779; troop assignments on the French fleet, 1779; rosters of troops at St. Malo, France; and a report on the siege of Savannah, Georgia, 1779. Also included are shipping lists, rosters, equipment lists, and embarkation orders for Comte de Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur Rochambeau’s army and the supporting French fleet, 1780-1781.