Chevalier and
Viscount De,
military officer; born in
Limoges, France, about 1740; was educated for an engineer, and, coming to
America, received a captain's commission from
Washington.
For his good conduct in the campaign of 1777, Congress gave him a horse and commission of lieutenantcolonel, Nov. 26, 1777; and in the winter of 1778 he was inspector under
Steuben.
He was adjutant-general of
Lee's division in June, 1779, and was so distinguished
at the assault on
Stony Point, July, 1779, that Congress gave him thanks and a silver medal.
De Fleury returned to
France soon after the affair at Stony
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Point, before the medal was struck; and it was probably never in his 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.
