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    The Capture of Grenada was an amphibious expedition in July 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. Charles Hector, comte D'Estaing led French forces...
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    Théobald Dillon (category Knights of the Order of Saint Louis)
    the Capture of Grenada (1779) and the siege of Savannah in 1779, was appointed a knight of St. Louis in 1781, was authorised to wear the Order of Cincinnatus...
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    The Battle of Grenada took place on 6 July 1779 during the American Revolutionary War in the West Indies between the British Royal Navy and the French...
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    re-captured the island during the American Revolutionary War, after Comte d'Estaing won the bloody land and naval Battle of Grenada in July 1779. However...
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  • The history of Grenada in the Caribbean, part of the Lesser Antilles group of islands, covers a period from the earliest human settlements to the establishment...
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    battle in the war by number of combatants. On 16 June 1779, Spain entered the war on the side of France and as co-belligerents of the revolutionary United...
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    on Grenada. On 2 July he arrived off the island, which his forces took by storm two days later. Admiral Byron had been alerted to the capture of St....
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  • year 1779 in France. Monarch: Louis XVI 12 April - Treaty of Aranjuez (1779) June–September - Armada of 1779 2-4 July - Capture of Grenada (1779) 6 July...
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  • War: Spain captures Saint Vincent and Grenada from the British. 7 September – American Revolutionary War: Capture of Fort Bute by Spanish troops. 20 to 21...
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    1588, was called the Armada of 1779. The proposed plan was to seize the Isle of Wight and then capture the British naval base of Portsmouth. The combined...
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  • Leros – 1943 Capture of Grenada (1779) – 1779 – American Revolutionary War Battle of Grenada1779 – American Revolutionary War Battle of La Arada – 1851...
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    Carriacou (category Islands of Grenada)
    of the Grenadine Islands. It is a part of the nation of Grenada and is located in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea, northeast of the island of Grenada...
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    the Battle of Grenada under Lamotte-Picquet. In the Battle of Martinique, on 18 December 1779, Annibal single-handedly engaged seven ships of the line to...
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  • participated in the capture of Martinique, the occupation of Grenada, and the 1762 Battle of Havana 1779–1783, 95th Regiment of Foot (Reid's) - Participated...
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    Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    campaign against Britain under the command of D'Estaing. In 1779 he and his regiment fought at the Capture of Grenada against British forces under George Macartney...
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  • The Capture of Saint Vincent was a French invasion that took place between 16 and 18 June 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. A French force commander...
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    Jean Gaspard de Vence (category French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    80-gun ship of the line «Le Languedoc», the flagship of Admiral d'Estaing distinguished himself at the capture of July 2, 1779 the island of Grenada, where...
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    of the escadre d'évolution. In 1779, Grimouard commanded the frigate Minerve. He captured the British Debora, and took part in the Battle of Grenada on...
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  • François-Louis de Brach (category Year of death missing)
    tasked with the capture of Saint Vincent. Brach captained Magnifique at the Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779, and at the Battle of Martinique on 17 April...
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    part of 1779 in the Caribbean, where his fleet and a British fleet monitored each other's movements. He took advantage of conditions to capture Grenada in...
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  • This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties. Major campaigns, theaters...
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  • bird Swallow: Swallow, a ship of the Third Supply fleet to Virginia colony in 1609. Swallow (1751 Brigantine) Swallow (1779 EIC packet) was a packet ship...
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  • Jean-François, comte de Durat (category Governors of Grenada)
    was Governor of Grenada from 1779 to 1783. Born at Chateau Vauchaussades, Combrailles, in the Auvergne, Durat's family had a history of military service...
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  • French ship Hippopotame (1749) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
    the French line of battle at the Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779, and served as a hospital during the Siege of Savannah. Hippopotame entered service in...
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    (partly influenced by the temporary French re-capture of Grenada in 1779), the British decided to annex most of the Grenadines to St. Vincent's oversight...
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    HMS Lion (1777) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She fought at the Battle of Grenada under...
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    William Cornwallis (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    process of capturing Grenada. Byron consequently took his fleet to Grenada in the hopes of engaging them and preventing the capture of Grenada. The island...
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    was the Capture of Savannah, Georgia in December 1778. After repulsing an assault on Savannah by a combined Franco-American force in October 1779, the British...
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    The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan...
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  • Accounts differ regarding her origins; she may have been built and launched in 1779 at Sidmouth, or in 1786 on the River Thames. Her First Fleet voyage commenced...
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