destrahoudal

Updated: July 11, 2025

These had on board eleven companies of soldiers, of whom their senior officer reports that only ninety-one were in health. Among these was the frigate "La Palme." "Yesterday," says the journalist, "I supped with M. Destrahoudal, who commands this frigate; and he told me things which from anybody else would have been incredible. This is his story, exactly as I had it from him."

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II