- unitid
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{"value"=>"279982", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20073", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Feb. 17, 1784", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1784-02-17"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [Horatio] Gates [Traveller's Rest, Berkeley Co., Va.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Asking to be admitted into the Society of the Cincinnati; details his military services from 1776 to 1778, when he returned to France on sick leave, was appointed D. A. G. in March, 1780 and served until 1783; is the only Frenchman who was at both the glorious actions of Saratoga and Yorktown; had thought of urging his claim in person, but was persuaded by the Marquis de Lafayette; General Conway is Major General, he is lieutenant colonel, D. A. G. and Knight of St. Louis, but there is no happiness without the cincinnatus; concludes with kindly expressions to Gates and his wife."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Du Bouchet, Denis Jean Florimond Langlois, Marquis (Paris)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1784
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1784
- keydate
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1784-02-17
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1784-02-17
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1784-02-17