The Octavo · 1897 · restored 2025

A French Volunteer of the War of Independence

Chevalier de Pontgibaud — The Chevalier de Pontgibaud was a teenage nobleman who escaped jail, enlisted, and crossed the Atlantic to fight alongside the Continental Army.

The Chevalier de Pontgibaud was a teenage nobleman who escaped jail, enlisted, and crossed the Atlantic to fight alongside the Continental Army. His memoir — first translated into English in 1897 and never republished since — gives a vivid, personal account of Yorktown, the naval war, and the character of the Founders as seen through foreign eyes. This is the first republication since that original translation.

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Pontgibaud, Chevalier de. A French Volunteer of the War of Independence (1897). Bulkington Books, 2025.