[PW] Re: Launoy

[Winters, Murl]

The book by Thomas Balch, Les Francais en Amérique pendant la guerre de l'indépendence des États-Unis 1777-1783. Paris, A. Sauton; Philadephia, J.-B Lippincott; [etc] 1872, has on p.74, "Les seuls ingénieurs qui furent envoyes en Amérique avec une mìssion secrète du gouvernement francais furent de Gouvion, Du Portail, La Radière et Laumoy.  ...mais ils n`arrivèrent en Amèrique qu'après la Fayette, le 29 juillet 1777." It has a footnote source for the paragraph: Notices biographiques.
 [If I have misinterpreted one or more letters, I am using an ultramicrofiche copy and its text is not always plain to me.]
Murl Winters
Assistant Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802

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Subject: [PW] Launoy

I strongly suspect that you're right about Launoy's first name being
lost.  In <Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology> by
Lance Day and Ian Mcneil, which is pretty darned complete, only his last
name is given.  For what it's worth, <Our Debt to France>, an
unattributed work published by the Washington Lafayette Institution in
1926, says that Launoy helped George Washington during the American
Revolution.  According to another source, Launoy arrived in the United
States on July 29, 1777;  this cites Balch, The French in America during
the War of Independence, for the date, so if anyone has the Balch book
one might peek in there.

-- Tom 

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