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.