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He served brilliantly under Lafayette in America, and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781 . He was elected to the Estates-General in 1789 . On 4 August 1789 , during the French Revolution , he began the famous "orgy", as Mirabeau called it, when all privileges were abolished, and with the Duc D'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of Titles and Liveries in June 1790 . When the Revolution became more pronounced he emigrated to the United States and became a partner in Bingham's bank at Philadelphia . He was very successful and might have lived happily had he not accepted a command against the English in San Domingo , under Rochambeau . He made a brilliant defence of the Môle St Nicholas and escaped with the garrison to Cuba , but ''en route'' there his ship was attacked by the English frigate ''Hazard,'' and after a long engagement he was severely wounded, dying of his wounds in Havana on 9 January 1804 . REFERENCES |
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