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Nov 30, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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JOURDAN JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1762-1833) French military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon. A.L.S., Jourdan, one page, folio, n.p., 18th September 1799, to General Dejean of the Engineering Corps, in French. Jourdan states, in part, 'The bridge established at Urdingen will remain. The same for the bridge at Cologne. I ask you to speed up as much as you can the establishment of a bridge at Bonn. There is a 4th bridge established at Neu-Wied; I've just given the order to establish a 5th one too with the boats and material we found behind the island of Falendar. Once the Bonn bridge is established I see no impediment to sending over the River Horses'. With address panel to the verso and an annotation in an unidentified hand listing the Rhine bridges at Andernach, Remagen, Bonn and Cologne. Some light age wear and a small circular area of paper loss, caused by the original breaking of the seal, not affecting the text or signature. About VG
