Tronson Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptist of Coudray is a French soldier, born with Rheims, the September 8th 1738 and died in Philadelphia, the September 11th 1777.

Scientific career

It was also corresponding Academy of Science. It devoted its writings to the use of artillery and the art of the minor , questions which led it to support the controversy with the marquis Antoine Baratier Saint-Auban (1713-1783) and the count of Buffon (1707-1788) in particular.

Military career

Chief of brigade of Artillery. He obtained the permission to go in America like volunteer, and left with a troop French officers to join the army of Washington. They were on the first building freighted by Beaumarchais, party of the Havre in January 1777.

The September 17th 1777, it crossed the Schuylkill on a flat boat, when the horse too fringant that it assembled put to move back and precipitated its rider in the river, where it drowned. Its Roger, aide-de-camp, tried to save it. Of Coudray was buried with the expenses of the the United States. It was very-dissatisfied with the processes of Beaumarchais towards him.

Publications

• Memory on the best method to extract and refine salpetre (Ruault, Uppsala and Paris, 1774).
• Memories on the Catalan forging mills compared with the blast furnace forging mills, Paris, 1775.

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