Charles-François of Buysson
See also: Buysson
Charles-François , knight then Viscount of Buysson of Aix (also known under the Dubuysson names and Dubuysson of the Beams), is a French soldier born the August 19th 1752 with the castle from Aix, parish of Treban (To combine), and dead the March 19th 1786 with Moulins (To combine). It is resulting from an old family of the nobility of Bourbonnais.
In April 1777, the knight of Buysson took on board on board the vessel the Victoire with the marquis of Fayette, his distance cousin with which it had served a few years before in the regiment of the dragons of Noailles, to join America and to engage at the sides of the Insurgents in war against England.
Arrived to America, it had, like his companions, to face the hostility of the American Congress which balked to enlist French officers, considered on the spot as half-pays and adventurers. Thanks to the good relationships of Fayette and Washington and to its insistence to be useful in the American troops, he managed to be named aide-de-camp of the general baron de Kalb and took an active share in the campaigns against the British army. August 16th, 1780, with the Battle of Camden, it is seriously wounded while vainly trying to carry help to the baron de Kalb and captive fact by the English.
Released on word, it returned to France in 1781 after being imprisoned on a British pontoon.
Become general sergeant of North Carolina in reward of its services, he vainly requests an active employment in the French Army where he has the rank of colonel of infantry following the French colonies. Knight about Cincinnatus, it is decorated with the cross of Saint-Louis and is made Viscount with patent by Louis XVI in 1785. He dies shortly after of the continuations of his wounds received in America.
During his stay in America, the knight of Buysson establishes several memories relating to the American Revolution and the situation of the involved forces which he addressed to the count Charles François de Broglie, instigator of the forwarding of Fayette which had directed under Louis XV the Secret of the King. These memories were taken again by many historians of the American Revolution who greeted the precision and the quality of the reports/ratios of the knight of Buysson.
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