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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Jean Baptiste, chevalier de Ternant, correspondence, 1783-1816</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ternant, Jean Baptiste</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">chevalier de</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1751-1833</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
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  <abstract>ALS (1783 October 18; Philadelphia, Pa.) from Ternant to Jacob Read relating to Ternant's application to the Continental Congress for a promotion by brevet for Revolutionary War service in the Continental Army; and letter (1816 April 21; Paris) from Ternant to George Simpson, Philadelphia, Pa., regarding commercial concerns.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, negative photocopy made with the permission of Walter B. Beals. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1935.</note>
  <note>French army officer and minister to the United States.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of:  Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Read, Jacob</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1752-1816</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Simpson, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1822</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Army.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Congress.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Paris (France)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <geographic>Philadelphia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Philadelphia (Pa.)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <geographic>Paris</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Participation, French</topic>
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    <occupation>Army officers, French</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Diplomats, French</occupation>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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