Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GRASSE, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH PAUL; COMTE DE. Autograph Letter Signed, "Le Comte de Grasse," to Count Langeron, in French, reporting that the Corps recruits are disembarking naked, and inquiring whether he might advise the Minister to forbid the ship captains from taking aboard troops without clothing. 1/2 page, 4to; faint scattered staining, remnants of prior mounting at upper corners verso. Brest, 14 March 1781

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François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722-1788) was a French Admiral whose command of the French Caribbean fleet during the Battle of the Chesapeake and the subsequent blockade in September of 1781 proved critical in bringing about the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.