Ordonnance du Roi, pour donner une nouvelle forme aux six compagnies de Canonniers-Bombardiers des îles du vent & sous le vent de l'Amérique, & assimiler leur traitement à celui des troupes du corps-royal employées dans les mêmes colonies : du 28 Août 1777 : de par le Roi.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801.

France. Sovereign (1774-1792 : Louis XVI)

Imprimerie royale (France), printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France. Armée. Artillerie--Colonial forces--West Indies.

France.

France. Armée. Artillerie--Pay, allowances, etc--Early works to 1800.

France. Armée.

France. Armée. Artillerie.

Organization.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.

United States.

History.

West Indies, French.

France. Armée--Organization.

West Indies.

France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.

Physical Description:

4 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

France Pamphlets 1775-1785. no. 54 PU

Fingerprint:

rsze s,un unun R.t: (C) 1777 (A)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : De l'imprimerie royale, 1777.

Notes:

Caption title.

Head-piece; woodcut initial.

Signed: De Sartine.

Imprint from colophon.

This ordnance lists the new structure of the six companies of cannonneers-bombers (Artillery) of West Indies, gives the pay of officers and men, as well as their food rations. These troops were later sent to aid the Americans during the American Revolution.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 54 in a collection of 83 arrêts, édits, ordonnances, lettres, etc., concerning French colonies and trade in America, Africa, and the Far East; housed together in a slipcase with the spine title France Pamphlets 1775-1785.

Cited in:

Wroth & Annan. Acts of French Royal Administration, 1889

OCLC:

783613872