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Image: George Washington Comte de Rochambeau 1781

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Description: Photograph of letter from General George Washington to Antoine Charles du Houx, Baron de Viomenil, Comte de Rochambeau, in which Washington reports that "I have received an account, though not the particulars, of an engagement on the 15th Instant, between General Greene and Lord Cornwallis near Guilford Court House in North Carolina. I impatiently expect official accounts, which I shall transmit to your Excellency." The George Washington Papers, Series 3, Varick Transcripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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