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Excerpt from The Order of the Cincinnati in France <p>During that War the Commissioned Officers of the Regular Rhode Island Continental Line were more intimately associated with their French Brethren than were the American Officers from other parts of the United States. <p>Of these French Officers, several served under Continental Commissions at the siege of Newport and Battle of Rhode Island. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.