Order of Cincinnatus

The Order of Cincinnatus ( General Society off the Cincinnati ), patriotic company formed with the the United States in 1783, was made up of all those which had been distinguished during the Guerre from independence. Its members proposed for model Cincinnatus: they carried a medal where this large citizen was represented leaving his Charrue Servir the State. This company, admitting heredity, was regarded as incompatible with the republican spirit and was removed.

In 1884, with an aim of instituting a official Collection of the National order of Cincinatus , the State Department of Washington addressed to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Pari S already to have exact information on information in its possession, relative to the many officers who had had to receive American decoration.

A list, drawn up with the files of the Library off Congress, provided to the Ministry for the French War by the Secretary of the Legation of the United States, in France, Mr. Henry Vilbud, historian and archeologist of great reputation, made it possible the Administration of the St-Germain Boulevard to achieve a meticulous work. the majority of the facts, on this subject writes the Vicomte of Noailles in his work of 1903, the majority of the names of which some transfer to rectify their orthography, were turned over with precise mentions. For others, research did not lead to any result. They remained such as they had been announced. It seems almost impossible to find the names of all these brave men who were useful in the army of the Congress or the provincial legions after the examination frightening length of all the officers between 1776 and 1783. A gap would exist until these days because several gained America without to have belonged to the national army, or after in being left .

In 1903, on the request of the National Society off Sounds off the Revolution , the Quay of Orsay published in the “Joined together Bookstores” Mortenez and Martinez in Paris a work containing 50.000 names of sailors and French soldiers with an introduction of Mr. Henri Mérou, French Consul to Chicago. The structure supports the following title: French combatants of the American war 1776-1783, lists drawn up according to authentic documents deposited with the Public records and Files of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. "

These lists give the states of the naval officers of the squadrons of the Count d' Estaing, of the Count de Guichon, the Count de Ternay (armed with Rochambeau) and of the Count of Fatty-Tilly and the officers of the metropolitan army: Army of Rochambeau, Regiment of Resident of Agen, Regiment of Gâtinais, Regiment of Turns, Regiment of Foix (a battalion), Regiment of Hainaut, Regiment of Dillon (Officers only), Regiment of Walsh (officers only) Regiment of Aixonne (a battalion), Regiment of Metz (2nd battalion). The colonial Regiments of the Guadeloupe and Martinique, of the Cape and Port-au-Prince, the Pomegranate-Volunteers of the Viscount of Framais, the Hunter-Volunteers of Santo Domingo of the Marquis de Rouvray are by no means included/understood in this inventory of glory.

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