Louis Marie de Noailles

[1] He served under his brother-in-law the Marquis de Lafayette in America during the American War for Independence, and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781.

On 4 August 1789, during the French Revolution, he began the famous "orgy" (as Mirabeau called it) when feudalism was to be abolished, and the Duc d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of titles and liveries in June 1790.

[1] As the French Revolution progressed and became more dangerous for nobles, he emigrated to the United States and became a partner in William Bingham's Bank of North America in Philadelphia.

He commanded a defence of the Môle-Saint-Nicolas and escaped with the garrison to Cuba, but en route there his ship was attacked by a British schooner.

[1] Louis Marie Antoine de Noailles was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati from France.