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4to (230 x 180 mm) autograph certificat, signed [Martinique] 19 mars 1794, 1p., brown ink on paper with the seal of ‘Le Commandant des Iles du Vent” (traces of folds, small portion missing at center, seal brittle and with slight loss).
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Certificate for ‘Citizen Joseph Gambez, doctor of the Republic… military hospital of St-Pierre-Martinique has carried out his duties with great zeal… he has supported the true constitutional principles of the republican government adopted by France with a civic-mindedness free from any personal interest’.
Appointed lieutenant-general of the Leeward Islands in 1793, Donatien Rochambeau won several victories over the English allied with the Royalists. However, he had to surrender on 22 March 1794 in Saint-Pierre after a long siege, and this certificate was written five days before the surrender and is fully signed ‘Le 19 Mars vieux style – 29 ventôse An II de la république française une et indivisible”.
Traces of folding and splitting in the centre, small missing stamp.
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