USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly SMOM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a career French officer who achieved the rank of admiral. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -When de Grasse was ordered to sail with his French fleet from the West Indies to America in 1781 to assist Washington and French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in the War for American Independence, the French navy commander was given a choice of specific destination.

Detailed explanation-3: -Francois-Joseph-Paul de Grasse-Rouville, Comte de Grasse, was the French Admiral who won the Battle of the Capes, stopped the British navy from reinforcing Yorktown, and ensured Cornwallis’ surrender and the end of the American War for Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was Philip the Fair who created the first French navy, but his sons allowed it to decay, and the naval defeat of Sluys (24 June 1340) led directly to the Hundred Years War.