“WESTERN ARMY. Place de RENNES” (Ille-et-Vilaine) – Document - Lot 331

“WESTERN ARMY. Place de RENNES” (Ille-et-Vilaine) – Document signed by the council of the 5th Mounted Artillery Regiment, by Major General La Barolière, commander of the 13th Military Division, and by the commander of the City of Rennes under a state of siege – Permanent discharge from military service for Jacques DESCHAMPS, 2nd-Class Gunner, who served with honor, integrity, and courage, granted on the grounds of honorable wounds sustained during the events of the war (a blow from a Biscayen during the relief of Mantua by the Army of Italy;... received a splinter of wood ejected from a cannonball near CONY) — Dated at RENNES on the 20th of Germinal, Year 8 (April 10, 1800) — Seals — 1 page (38 x 27) with reinforcements on the spine.

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