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The French fleet under Admiral DeGrasse (François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse) kept the British fleet from reinforcing or evacuating Cornwallis's forces at Yorktown. His ships defeated the British Admiral Thomas Graves in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
Admiral De Grasse (1722-1788) commanded French ships that aided the US side in the American Revolution by interdicting British naval forces.Admiral De Grasse (François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse) was the French admiral who destroyed the British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, thus contributing to Washington's later victory at Yorktown.
General Washington, General Rochambeau, and Admiral de Grasse.
Battle Of Yorktown
In the Battle of New York, the British defeated the Americans.
The French fleet under Admiral DeGrasse (François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse) kept the British fleet from reinforcing or evacuating Cornwallis's forces at Yorktown. His ships defeated the British Admiral Thomas Graves in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
Admiral De Grasse (1722-1788) commanded French ships that aided the US side in the American Revolution by interdicting British naval forces.Admiral De Grasse (François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse) was the French admiral who destroyed the British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, thus contributing to Washington's later victory at Yorktown.
Admiral De Grasse
Francois de Grasse was a French admiral. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown.
During the battle of Yorktown, De Grasse brought ships from the Carribean and blocked the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, blocking the British supply ships.
General Washington, General Rochambeau, and Admiral de Grasse.
Battle Of Yorktown
The French Fleet, under Admiral the Comte de Grasse, which on Sept. 5, 1781, in the Battle of Chesapeake Capes had driven off the British Fleet from the Bay. De Grasse's Fleet maintained a sea blockade of Cornwallis' Army, preventing them from receiving supplies.
Xerxes I of Persia was defeated in the naval battle of Salamis by Athenian admiral Themistocles .
Admiral Horatio Nelson
The British defeated the French at the Battle of Montreal.
The battle was the Battle of Trafalgar. It took place of the Cape of Trafalgar on the southwestern coast of Spain in 1805. Admiral Sir Lord Nelson defeated the combined Spanish and French navies. He was killed in the battle and shipped home in a cask of brandy.