Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

French general (1740–1793)

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine was a French general. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he joined Rochambeau's Expédition Particulière supporting the American colonists. Following the successful…