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Title:

The Operations of the French fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-1782, as described in two contemporaneous journals. Edited with an introd. by J. G. Shea.

Publisher:

Da Capo Press,

Copyright Date:

1971

Description:

216 p. illus. 22 cm.

Subject:

Grasse-Tilly, François Joseph Paul,--marquis de,--1722-1788.
United States--French participation.--Revolution, 1775-1783--French participation.
United States--Naval operations.--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations.

Other Authors:

Shea, John Dawson Gilmary, 1824-1892. ed.
Goussencourt, Chevalier de. A journal of the cruise of the fleet, in 1781 and 1782. 1972.

Other Titles:

Journal d'un officier de l'armée navale en Amérique. English. 1972.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1864 ed. which was published as no. 3 in the Bradford Club series.

Contents:

Francis Joseph Paul de Grasse-Rouville, Count de Grasse, Marquis de Tilly.--A journal of the cruise of the fleet of His Most Christian Majesty, under the command of the Count de Grasse-Tilly, in 1781 and 1782, by the Chevalier de Goussencourt.--Journal of an officer in the naval army in America, in 1781 and 1782.--Appendix: Letter from Count de Grasse to General Washington, 23 September, 1781. Letter of General Washington, 22 September, 1781. Account of de Grasse's conquest of Tobago, from the Gazette de France, Aug. 10, 1781. Journal of the operations of the fleet, abridged from the Gazette de France, 20 November. Actions of April 9 and 12 [extracted from "Voyage d'un Suisse dans differentes colonies d'Amérique" by J. Girod-Chantrans] Rodney's account of the actions of April 9 and 12.

Series:

The Era of the American Revolution

ISBN:

9780306702464
0306702460

LCCN:

75167946

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)