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He was the author of several pamphlets, as well as the work "Exile from Great Britain, by Order of the Duke of Portland " (1797); his correspondence with [[Thomas Paine]] (1737-1809), published in Paris in 1796 under the title of "The Duke of Portland". by name «Official and private correspondence of Major-General J.S. Eustace, citizen of the state of New-York |
He was the author of several pamphlets, as well as the work "Exile from Great Britain, by Order of the Duke of Portland " (1797); his correspondence with [[Thomas Paine]] (1737-1809), published in Paris in 1796 under the title of "The Duke of Portland". by name «Official and private correspondence of Major-General J.S. Eustace, citizen of the state of New-York. |
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John Skey Eustace, born on 10 August, 1760 in Flushing, Queens, died in Newburg, New York, 25 August 1805 was a colonel of the Continental Army (1781) and an american general (marechal-de-camp) in French service during the French revolution.
Life
He was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in 1776?, and joined the Continental Army in 1775 to fight in the Revolutionary War, serving successively as an aide-de-camp to Charles Lee, John Sullivan and Nathanael Greene.
He participated in the repulse of the British attack on Charleston (?), Battle of Trenton, Battle at Princeton and Battle of Germantown. In the same year he was awarded with the rank of major. In 1778 he was at the siege of Newport, during the military campaign of 1779 against the Iroquois and loyalists on the New York border, known as the "Sullivan Expedition". He distinguished himself in the battle of Newtown. He was appointed colonel on 29 August 1781 in the American army.
Member of the Society of the Cincinnati (1783).
After the end of hostilities, he lived in Georgia, where he practiced law and served as Adjutant General of the Staff of Georgia (Adjutant general of the State of Georgia). In 1784 he went to Latin America, visited Cuba, Trinidad and Venezuela. Then he lived for a while in Madrid, where he opened a tobacco shop and unsuccessfully tried to interest Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger project for the liberation of Venezuela from Spanish rule.
France
In 1789, he moved to Bordeaux, where he enthusiastically watched the events of the French Revolution. In 1792, with the support of the American Consulate, he applied to the Minister of War Marquis de Grave (1755-1823) with a request for admission to the French army and on 20 April of the same year, he was accepted into the French service with the rank of colonel.
On 5 June 1792, he was aide-de-camp of marshal Luckner, and he was promoted to general of brigade on 7 September 1792, the army of the north. On 3 June, 1792 -adjutant of the staff of the Northern Army under (Marshal Luckner (1722-1794), 9 July, 1792 – field marshal, participated in the battle of Valmy on 20 September, 1792, then commanded an infantry brigade during the invasion of Charles-Francois Dumouriez in Belgium. He occupied the city of Lier, Belgium where he ordered local authorities to rename the city square in honor of General Washington (Place de Washington),
On 29 November, 1792 sent to the commander of Maastricht Major General Prince von Hesse-Darmstadt a letter demanding the surrender of French emigrants who had taken refuge in this city, and then personally visited Maastricht, where he dined with the Austrian commander, as a result of which he was removed from command by General Dumouriez on 23 December (13 December, 1792) and sent to Paris to explain his behavior before the Convention (Convention Nationale). However, he ignored the order and, claiming to be ill, retired to the Abbey of Tongerlo, where he successfully resisted the attempts of Generals Dumouriez and (Miranda) to arrest him. When the Austrian troops approached Tongerlo he moved to Paris and on 29 March, 1793 he was arrested "for insubordination", or condemned by the tribunal of Paris for insubordination.
After the betrayal of General Dumouriez he received (22 April, 1793) freedom with the removal of all charges and declined the offer of a military officer. Minister Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte to re-establish himself in the army, citing General Washington's declaration of neutrality (1732-1799). In the same year, he refused to testify against General Miranda before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the grounds that "he was a personal enemy of the defendant", for which he was ostracized by Jean-Paul Marat. On 8 August, 1793 he asked for a passport to return to America, but remained in France and was engaged in developing a plan for the "fraternal invasion of Ireland" and the creation of a "French Gibraltar" on the coast of England. In 1796 he participated in fruitless negotiations with the British envoy, the Earl of Malmsbury. In 1797 he commanded a division of the French army in Flanders. He lived under police supervision until 1800, when he returned to his homeland. He led a studious and retired life in Newburg, New York and died at the age of 45.
Works
He was the author of several pamphlets, as well as the work "Exile from Great Britain, by Order of the Duke of Portland " (1797); his correspondence with Thomas Paine (1737-1809), published in Paris in 1796 under the title of "The Duke of Portland". by name «Official and private correspondence of Major-General J.S. Eustace, citizen of the state of New-York.