Admiral François Joseph Paul, Marquis de Grasse, commanded the French fleet that bottled up British warship in Chesapeake Bay, forcing Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown October 19, 1781. (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Admiral François Joseph Paul, Marquis de Grasse, commanded the French fleet that bottled up British warship in Chesapeake Bay, forcing Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown October 19, 1781. (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)