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The Operations of the French Fleet under the Count de Grasse
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in 1781-2, as Described in Two Contemporaneous Journals
The Operations of the French Fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-1782 by John Gilmary Shea
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As described in two contemporaneous journals.
Edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own." cf. p. 21.
The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym. cf. Pref.
Correspondence of General Washington and Comte de Grasse
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1781, August 17-November 4. With supplementary documents from the Washington papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. Ed. by the Institut Français de Washington.
Correspondence includes letters to and from other officers, and relates principally to military and naval operations connected with the siege of Yorktown.
Mémoire du comte de Grasse sur le combat naval du 12 avril 1782 by François Joseph Paul de Grasse
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