"Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez " Topic

(July 17, 1729 – December 8, 1788)

"Pierre-André de Suffren de Saint Tropez has been called the greatest French naval commander of the eighteenth century. In 1778 and 1779 he commanded part of the squadron supporting the US patriots off the coast of North America and in the West Indies. He led the line in the action with Admiral John Byron off Grenada, and his ship, the Fantasque, lost sixty-two men.

In 1780 he was captain of Zčle, in the combined French and Spanish fleets that captured a great English convoy in the Atlantic. He sailed from Brest on March 22, 1781, on the mission that was to put him in the first rank of sea commanders. On April 16 he found the English expedition, under the command of Commodore George Johnstone, at anchor in Porto Praya, Cape Verde Islands. Both squadrons were en route to the Cape of Good Hope—the British to take it from the Dutch, the French aiming to help defend it and French possessions in the Indian Ocean. Suffren attacked at once, in what became known as the Battle of Porto Praya. Some of the French ships weren't ready for action, so Suffren had to withdraw, but nevertheless it was a French victory, as Suffren was able to beat Johnstone to the Cape and warn the Dutch before continuing to Mauritius…."
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Armand

That was…
Kind of disconcerting.

(smile)

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