The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Béndalou, Paul
BÉNDALOU, Paul, a soldier of the
American Revolutionary army: b. Montauban,
France, 15 Aug. 1755; d. Baltimore, Md., 10
Dec. 1826. In October 1776 he embarked at
Bordeaux for the United States as a volunteer
in the cause of liberty, and, on reaching the
headquarters of Washington, received a
lieutenant's commission. Transferred to the
command of Pulaski he was captain of the first
company in his famous legion at the siege of
Savannah. There he carried off the field the
body of the generous Pole, and preserved, also,
the standard of the legion which had been
wrought and presented by the wives and
daughters of Maryland. He was
quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel, in the
Maryland militia daring the War of 1812, and
for many years United States marshal for the
Circuit and District Courts of Maryland, his
official conduct, from first to last, being marked
with exactness and integrity.