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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

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Auction Date:2012 Nov 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
French military officer (1762–1833) who Napoleon named a Marshal of France. ALS in French, signed “Jourdan,” one page, 8.25 x 12.75, Etat-Major General letterhead, September 18, 1799. Letter to General Dejean of the Engineering Corps. In part (translated): “The bridge established at Urdingen will remain. The same for the bridge at Cologne. I ask you to speed up as much as you can the establishment of a bridge at Bonn. There is a 4th bridge established at Neu-Wied; I’ve just given the order to establish a 5th one too with the boats and materiel we found behind the island of Falendar. Once the Bonn bridge is established I see no impediment to sending over the River Horses.” A contemporary note lists the Rhine bridges at Andernach, Remagen, Bonn, and Cologne. Intersecting folds, scattered creases, toning, foxing, and soiling, paper loss to the upper right where a wax seal was once affixed, and a small tear to the upper right corner, otherwise very good condition.