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Battle of Chesapeake

Great Britain · Warfare / American War of Independence. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1781

Samuel Hood Hood, 1st5 September 1781

Chesapeake · Warfare / American War of Independence

Hood joins Admiral Thomas Graves in the unsuccessful effort to relieve the army at Yorktown, when the British fleet is driven off by the French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse, at the Battle of the Chesapeake

Names involved

Samuel Hood Hood, 1st

Provenance

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