With all that remained of his legion, he then hurried after the allied forces, whom he joined before the beleaguered town, in time to participate in the honors and successes that awaited the confederates. When on the night of the 14th of October, the redoubt upon the left of the enemy's lines was attacked and carried by a detachment under lieuten-ant-colonel Hamilton, Armand, with several of his officers, was along, having previously obtained permission to join the storming party. "Allow me the satisfaction," says Hamilton in his letter to LaFayette, "of expressing our obligations to colonel Armand, and also to captain Segonge, the chevalier de Fontivieux, and captain Bedkin, officers of his corps, who acting upon this occasion as volunteers, proceeded at the head of the right column, and entering the redoubt among the first, by their gallant example contributed to the success of the enterprise." As soon as his corps had been sufficiently recruited, in February 1782, it was sent along with Lauzun's legion to join the southern army under Greene, which had been hitherto deficient in cavalry; but hostilities now languished as the war drew towards its end, and from this time forward Armand does not appear to have been actively employed. In the following March, congress appointed him to the rank of brig-adier-general. He seems to have remained in this country

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until the beginning of 1784. Washington, who took a lively interest in his restoration to royal favor, wrote in his behalf to some of the most prominent courtiers of Versailles, among whom were count Rochambeau and his old commander the duke de Biron, expressing a high opinion of his merits, men-tioning in the most flattering terms his American military services, and commending him for promotion and employ-ment in his own country. The consequence of this interces-sion was that on his return to Europe he was received with distinction; and rank and actual command, at once honor-able and satisfactory, were assigned him in the French army.