François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French admiral
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Place of Birth: Le Bar-sur-Loup, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About François Joseph Paul de Grasse
- François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse (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.
- 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.
- In 1782 British Admiral Rodney decisively defeated and captured Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes.
- Grasse was widely criticised for his loss in that battle.
- On his return to France in 1784, he demanded a court martial; it acquitted him of fault in his defeat. His grown children from his marriages all emigrated to Saint-Domingue, his eldest son Auguste assigned there as a naval officer, and joined by his stepmother and sisters after the father's death.
- They had lost property in the French Revolution.
- He was among French officers who surrendered to the British during the Haitian Revolution.
- Auguste and his four sisters went as refugees to Charleston, South Carolina, where two sisters died of yellow fever.
- One married and founded a family line with her husband in New York City.
- Grasse's natural, adopted Indian-French son, George de Grasse, emigrated to New York City by 1799, where he married and made his adult life.
- The admiral's eldest son, known as Auguste de Grasse, returned to France after Napoleon came to power, and re-entered the military.
- He inherited his father's title as count.
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Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
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| Alternative names | Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse | ||
| Description | French lithographer and painter | ||
| Date of birth/death | 1 November 1784 | 15 November 1844 | |
| Location of birth/death | Corbeil-Essonnes | Paris | |
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