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Series 6: Berthier's Journey to Prussia, 1783

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Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists of Berthier's account of the trip he took in Germany and Austria during the summer of 1783 to observe the maneuvers of the war machine organized by Frederick II. The manuscript indicates that he traveled alone, by post most of the time, hiring a horse occasionally to visit a battlefield. He was probably the only French observer following the military operations that year.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

General

These papers are housed in the original red portfolio cases (and order) in which they were presented to the Library in 1939.

Collection History

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

This collection was word-processed by Anna Bialek in July and August of 2005. Finding aid written by Howard Rice in 1957.

During 2022, restrictions for this collection were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.

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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Credit this material:

Series 6: Berthier's Journey to Prussia; Louis-Alexandre Berthier Collection, C0022, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (hsvm): Box XIII

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Existence and Location of Copies

This collection is also available in microfilm.

Separated Materials

Relation de l'Escadre Française, aux ordres du Cher. Destouches, & de l'affaire qui a eue lieu le 16 Mars 1781, entre cette Escadre & celle des Anglais, commandée par l'Amiral Arbuthnot was transferred to rare books (1081.755 EX).

Bibliography

Berthier's journal and maps were translated and edited by Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown in their two-volume work The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972).

Rice and Brown cite several sources in their descriptions used in this finding aid: Berthier's journal: "Journal of Louis-Alexandre Berthier," which is translated and edited by Rice/Brown in Volume 1 (pp. 189-282) of their 1972 work cited above Chastellux: Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782 by the Marquis de Chastellux (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963), a revised translation with introduction by Howard C. Rice, Jr. Clermont-Crèvecœur's journal: "Journal of Jean-François-Louis, Comte de Clermont-Crèvecœur," which is also translated and edited by Rice/Brown, Volume 1 (pp. 1-100) of their 1972 work cited above Verger's journal: "Journal of Jan-Baptiste-Antoine de Verger," which is also translated and edited by Rice/Brown, Volume 1 (pp. 101-188) Von Closen's journal: The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig Von Closen, 1780-1783 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), translated and edited with an introduction by Evelyn M. Acomb

Names:
France. Armée
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de (1725-1807)