197 - "Militaria: FRENCH REVOLUTION/Year II 1793/Certificate of service with the unit dated October 18, 1793, from Urrugne (Basses-Pyrénées 64)/Army of the Western Pyrenees and 3rd Battalion of the Gers (32)/Gironde (33) Libourne Castillon—an official document signed during that period. It pertains to Citizen Jean Garitay, a native of Castillon, Libourne district, Gironde department, certified as active “since May 14, 1793” in the 5th Company, having “always served in the Corps since that time as a good and zealous Republican .”

"Militaria: FRENCH REVOLUTION/Year II 1793/Certificate of service with the unit dated October 18, 1793, from Urrugne (Basses-Pyrénées 64)/Army of the Western Pyrenees and 3rd Battalion of the Gers (32)/Gironde (33) Libourne Castillon—an official document signed during that period. It pertains to Citizen Jean Garitay, a native of Castillon, Libourne district, Gironde department, certified as active “since May 14, 1793” in the 5th Company, having “always served in the Corps since that time as a good and zealous Republican .” The document is signed by Captain Bousquet in Urrugne (near the Spanish border, a rear base for the battles of that time). It bears numerous official signatures from that period at the bottom: members of the battalion’s Board of Directors, the Battalion Commander, the Sergeant Major, as well as the handwritten endorsement to the left by Deputy War Commissioner Douat. "