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François Joseph Paul de Grasse

1722 - 1788

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François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, KM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer. He is best known for his crucial victory over the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. The battle directly led to the Franco-American victory at the siege of Yorktown and helped secure the independence of the United States. After the battle, de Grasse returned with his fleet to the Caribbean. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Joseph Paul de Grasse is the 1,000th most popular military personnel (down from 994th in 2019), the 2,614th most popular biography from France (down from 2,541st in 2019) and the 97th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 1,000 out of 2,058. Before him are Takasugi Shinsaku, Yakov Pavlov, Henry Allingham, Yan Liang, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, and Walter Weiß. After him are P. G. T. Beauregard, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Stanisław Maczek, Erik Heinrichs, and Gongsun Du.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 16. Before him are Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold Auenbrugger, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paisius Velichkovsky, and Pietro Nardini. After him are Amursana, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Petrus Camper, Nicolas Luckner, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, and John Burgoyne. Among people deceased in 1788, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 15. Before him are Johann Georg Hamann, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Charles Wesley.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 2,614 out of 6,770. Before him are Elisabeth of Lorraine (1574), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Marie of the Incarnation (1566), Ginette Neveu (1919), Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (955), and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823). After him are Hervé Bazin (1911), Bathilde d'Orléans (1750), Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715), Henri Meilhac (1831), and Blanche of Artois (1248).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, François Joseph Paul de Grasse ranks 97. Before him are Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Adolphe Marbot (1781), Aimable Pélissier (1794), Jacques Doriot (1898), and Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771). After him are Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), Georges Guynemer (1894), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), and Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765).

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