Robert William Dillon

-https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Guillaume_Dillon

Robert Guillaume Dillon (or Robert William), (born in 1754 and died on May 28, 1839) is a Frenchman who fought in the United States War of Independence.

He was born at the Château de Terrefort in Gironde onSeptember 3, 1754 and was baptized on the 4th in the parish of Blanquefort, the 7th child of 13 total of Robert Dillon, Seigneur de Terrafort, of the younger branch of the Dillon Killcornan, by his wife Mary Dicconson. His father Robert Dillon, Sr. (1710 - 1764), was an Irish businessman who emigrated to France. Robert Jr’s brothers Théobald, Édouard , Franck-Théobald and Roger-Henry later emigrated to England. The death of his father in 1764, would leave his family in poverty ...

American Revolutionary War

camp master of the Lauzun-Hussards regiment

“Robert Selig – Rochambeau’s Most Colorful Officer: Robert Guillaume, Baron de Dillon of Lauzun’s Legion”

Robert Dillon is one of the most colorful officers in Lauzun’s Legion, Rochambeau’s most colorful unit. His recently discovered journal/autobiography, which ends on 3 October 1781, shortly after his arrival in Gloucester, Virginia, provides intriguing insights into what this 24-year-old Franco-Irish officer found worth recording in the New World as he rode the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail with his unit and how he interpreted his encounters with the multitude of racial and ethnic groups, their customs and habits, which he met between Lebanon and Gloucester.

References

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dillon
• “ Journal of Robert Guillaume Dillon, 1780-1781” link
• “ Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route”
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Hussar_Regiment_(France)_ The Légion de Lauzun became famous during the Siege of Yorktown, mainly before Gloucester on 3 October 1781, where they chased down the champion of the battle, a British cavalry led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton. The legion stayed in the United States of America, first in Hampton, Virginia, then in February 1782 in Charlotte Court House, Virginia, before they were moved in July 1782 to New York. The legion left the United States in May 1783.
• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/5e_régiment_de_hussards Chefs de corps - Robert Guillaume comte de Dillon (1754-1837), mestre de camp commandant (*)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_members_of_the_Socie...
• https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/ Hayes, R. (1942). Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 31(124), 477-492. Retrieved December 9, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30098105 page 487.