Overall, this book is a grade collector's book. This book is very elusive in this superior condition, as only a limited number of them were ever published, so now is the time to act. Hopefully you can add this book to your collection and enjoy it in the years to come...
This is a book from an earlier era; written in 1945, author Charles Lee Lewis tells the naval exploits of French Admiral de Grasse - a hero to all Americans at the end of the 18th century and forgotten by nearly all Americans by start of the 21st century. The Admiral, François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse denied the British fleet access to the Chesapeake Bay in September 1781, thereby removing any hope of retreat, or resupply to the stranded army of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. The naval "skirmish" preventing British Admiral Graves access to the Bay certainly doomed Cornwallis, demoralizing British voters, causing the fall of Lord North's government, leading to the treaty of Paris which produced American independence. Ultimately and sadly, America's hero dies in 1788, ignored in his native France, out of favor with the court of Louis XVI for his loss in the Caribbean at the battle of Saint's Passage and then his subsequent, Ill advised - all too public- defense of his actions.
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