CHOISI, Claude Gabriel de, French soldier, died about 1795. He entered the army as a common soldier, 16 June, 1741. and became an officer by merit. He followed Baron Viomenil to Poland, where he greatly distinguished himself by his de-fence of the castle of Cracow, early in 1772. He accompanied Rochambeau and Vioinenil to this country in 1780, where at the siege of Yorktown, in October, 1781, he commanded a brigade with which he invested Gloucester, Virginia, and on 3 October, with Lauzun's cavalry, attacked and defeated Tar-leton's legion. For his attachment to the king, he was imprisoned during the reign of terror, and probably died soon afterward. See "Lettres par-tieulieres du Baron de Viomenil" (Paris, 1808).