The Order of the Cincinnati in France Author:Asa Bird Gardiner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER ll. ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY IN FRANCE. The Institution of the Cincinnati, as primarily agreed upon by the American and French officers in their... more » cantonments on the Hudson river, in the United States of America, 1oth May, 1783, declared that "the Society, deeply impressed with a sense of the generous assistance this country has received from France, and desirous of perpetuating the friendships which have been formed, and so happily subsisted, between the officers of the allied forces in the prosecution of the war, direct that the President General transmit, as soon als may be, to each of the characters hereafter named, a medal containing the Order of the Society, viz. : "His Excellency the Chevalier de La Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary. "His Excellency the Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipotentiary. "Their Excellencies the Count d'Estaing, the Count de Grasse, the Count de Barras, the Chevalier Des Touches. "Admirals and Commanders in the Navy. "His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau, Commander in Chief, and the generals and colonels of his army, and acquaint them that the Society does itself the honor to consider them members." The last remaining detachment of the "Auxiliary Army" was about to depart from the Unite'd States, after having assisted in securing recognition of American independence and territorial sovereignty. Consequently the French officers did not, by delegates, participate in forming the Order, any more than the Continental Lines of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virgina, North Carolina, and South Carolina, which were at other stations of duty than the cantonments on the Hudson. At the convention of officers which adopted the Institution of the Cincinnati, on the 1oth May, 1783, Major General Frederic...« less