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NATHAN RICE

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
NATHAN RICE
(1754 - 1834) Massachusetts officer, aide-de-camp to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln from 1777 to 1780. Second in command to Alexander Scammell at Yorktown and commanded the light infantry after Scammell was killed. Military-content A.L.S., 1p. oblong 8vo., Boston, Oct. 16, 1789, and writes, in part: "As the establishment for a Regiment of Infantry directs that the Majors of a Regiment shall be allowed each a small Marquee or horseman's Tent - You will please to make two of the horsemans Tents into small Marquees ..." Light folds and soiling, else very good.