Life
De Grasse was baptized in St. Louis Parish, Versailles, France. His father, Admiral de Grasse, commanded the French fleet which surprised Cornwallis at Yorktown and forced a surrender. In his father's biography, de Grasse gives a third person account of his journey to the New World.
While he was in Saint-Domingue, he married the daughter of Jean Baptiste Delahogue, another founder of the Supreme Council. In July of 1794, de Grasse’s four sisters arrived in Boston. Later the next year, Congress awarded each of the daughters a thousand dollars each in gratitude for their father's aid to the American cause.
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