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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and StanKlos.com 1999. Virtualology.com cautions that these 19th Century biographies contain OCR errors and 19th Century bias. 

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Louis de Fleury

FLEURY, Louis de, chevalier and viscount, soldier, born in France about 1740. He was descended from Hercule Andre de Fleury, a French nobleman, who was the tutor of the grandson of Louis XIV., and subsequently made cardinal and prime minister. He was major in the regiment Rouergue. Soon after the news of the American revolt reached France he came to this country, was kindly received by Washington, and accepted a commission. He was educated for an engineer, and, as his talents were brought into requisition, he proved himself a brave and intelligent soldier. He was engaged at Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, and in the battle of +he Brandywine. In token of his gallantry at the latter place, congress presented him with a horse. He was sub-inspector under Steuben in 1777 and 1778, adjutant general of Lee's division, 4 June 1778, and second in command of a light infantry corps in the Rhode Island expedition, and afterward commanded a battalion of light infantry under Washington. When Rochambeau arrived in 1780, Fleury left the American service and became an officer under him. At the storming of Stony Point in July 1779, he commanded the van of the right column, and was the first to enter the British works, striking their colors with his own hand. He returned to France, having received a congressional vote of thanks.

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