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GRASSE, FRANCOIS JOSEPH PAUL, MARQUIS DE GRASSETILLY, COMTE DE (1722-1788)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 369 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GRASSE, FRANCOIS JOSEPH PAUL, MARQUIS DE GRASSETILLY, COMTE DE (1722-1788) , French sailor, was born at Bar, in the present department of the Alpes Maritimes. In 1734 he took service on the galleys of the order of Malta, and in 1740 entered the service of France, beingpromoted to
chief
  of
squadron
  in 1779. He took
part
  in the naval operations of the American War of Independence, and distinguished himself in the battles of Dominica and Saint Lucia (1780), and of
Tobago
  (1780. He was less fortunate at St Kitts, where he was defeated by
Admiral
  Hood. Shortly afterwards, in
April
  1782, he was defeated and taken prisoner by
Admiral
  Rodney. Some months later he re-turned to France, published a Memoire justificatif, and was acquitted by a
court
 -martial (1784). He died at Paris in January 1 788.
His son
Alexandre
  de
Grasse
 , published a Notice bibliographique sur l'amiral comte de
Grasse
  d'apres les documents inedits in 1840. See G. Lacour-Gayet, La Marine militaire de la France sous le regne de Louis X V (Paris, 1902).


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