Comte de grasse pronunciation
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Comte de grasse pronunciation
Comte de Grasse
The most important strategic decision that set Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army on the path to victory in the Revolutionary War was not made by Washington, but by French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse.
When de Grasse was ordered to sail with his French fleet from the West Indies to America in to assist Washington and French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in the War for American Independence, the French navy commander was given a choice of specific destination.
Washington was eager to attack the British stronghold in New York City.
Rochambeau, who had arrived with a small army in to help the Americans, favored confronting Gen. Charles Cornwallis and his British army at Yorktown, Va. For either target, strong naval support from de Grasse’s fleet was essential.
De Grasse sided with Rochambeau and chose Virginia.
It was closer to his fleet’s base, and the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay was more navigable than New York harb