Louis XV - Louis XV confie commandement des Isles du Vent à Le Vassor de La Touche - 1760

Letters patent granting the general command of the Isles of the Wind to Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, commanding him to 'command both the peoples of said Isles and all our other subjects, ecclesiastics, nobles, soldiers, and others of whatever rank and condition they may be, residing there, to maintain and keep them in peace, rest, and tranquility, and to defend them with all his power, to command by land and sea, to order and execute all that he or those he commissions shall judge necessary and able to do for the extent and preservation of said Isles [...]'.

Large parchment document, signed 'Louis' (secretary), countersigned by the Minister of the Navy Nicolas-René Berryer. Versailles, January 25, 1760.

[Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche (Lamentin, Martinique 1709-1781), on the proposal of Berryer, Secretary of State for the Navy, on January 18, 1760, succeeded the Marquis de Beauharnais as governor of Martinique and commander-in-chief of the Windward Islands. But besieged by the English fleets in the Caribbean Sea, and seeing no help coming from France, he was forced to surrender the island to the English in 1762].

Precious document.