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The operations of the French fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-2 / as described in two contemporaneous journals ; [edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Bradford Club series ; n. 3.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Bradford club series ; n. 3
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, French.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.
- Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788.
- Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p., [2] leaves of plates ) port., plan.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [s.n.], 1864.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 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 / 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.
- Notes:
- "One hundred and fifty copies printed"--verso, t.p.
- The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym.--Cf. Pref.
- The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own."--Cf. p. 21.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 28332.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG04-B298
- Contains:
- Girod-Chantrans, Justin, 1750-1841. Voyage d'un suisse dans différentes colonies d'Amérique pendant la dernière guerre. English. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 85800464
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