Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in entry fleury-louis of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...possession, for it seems to have been lost, probably while Congress was in session at Princeton.
In April, 1859, a boy found it while digging in a garden at Princeton.
De Fleury, on his return to France , joined the French troops under Rochambeaux sent to America in 1780.
Subsequently he became a field marshal of France, and was executed in Paris, in 1794.
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