USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War. It led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown and helped gain the rebels’ victory. After this action, de Grasse returned with his fleet to the Caribbean.

Detailed explanation-2: -François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse, (born September 13, 1722, Le Bar, France-died January 11, 1788, Paris), French naval commander who engaged British forces during the American Revolution (1775–83). De Grasse took service in 1734 on the galleys of the Knights of Malta, and in 1740 he entered the French service.

Detailed explanation-3: -Committee member Benjamin Franklin wrote to contacts in France with encouraging accounts of colonial resistance. The French had suffered a defeat by the British during the Seven Years’ War and had lost North American territory under the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Lafayette, there was no better person to receive the symbol of the end of ancient tyranny than the man who fought so bravely to establish the United States. At first glance, Lafayette might seem an unlikely supporter of George Washington. Born in 1757, he came from one of France’s oldest families.