Lieutenant général des armées navales François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, KM was a French naval officer. He is best known for his crucial victory over the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of the Chesapeake (1781), painting by V. Zveg from the collections of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Virginia, U.S.
U.S. postage stamp, 1931 issue, honoring Comte de Rochambeau, George Washington, and de Grasse, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the victory at the siege of Yorktown, 1781.
Tomb of de Grasse in the Church of Saint-Roch, Paris
Grasse Mount in Burlington, Vermont, named for de GrasseAwards 2
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Friedrich Wilhelm von SteubenAlso won Society of the Cincinnati
Fabian Gottlieb von BellingshausenAlso won Order of Saint Louis
Honoré III, Prince of MonacoAlso won Order of Saint Louis
Luis Felipe de SégurAlso won Society of the Cincinnati
Axel von Fersen the YoungerAlso won Society of the Cincinnati
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Lieutenant général des armées navales François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, KM was a French naval officer. He is best known for his crucial victory over the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. The battle directly led to the Franco-American victory at the siege of Yorktown and helped secure the independence of the United States.
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