Note 114 — II MAJOR L'ENFANT AND THE FEDERAL CITY
Reading edition
September 30, October 24, 1791. Correspondence of the French Ministers, ed. F.J. Turner, 1904, p. 62. "Salente," the ideal city, in Fénelon's Télémaque. During the War of Independence Chevalier Jean de Ternant had served as a volunteer officer in the American army. He was at Valley Forge, at Charleston, took part under Greene in the Southern campaign and was promoted a colonel by a vote of Congress.