From the Baron de Welffen
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Wiesbaden, near Mainz, May 30, 1778, in French: I ask for
suitable employment in your army. For almost thirty years,
through the end of the last war, I served the King of Prussia,
and then was caught in the general reduction of the forces; in
the American service, I am convinced, I shall not suffer such a
catastrophe, and my search for success so far away will drive
me to every sort of bravery.>
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