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    Gerald Max (1932). The Vitalism of Count de Gobineau, New York, [s.n.]. Valette, Rebecca M. (1969). Arthur de Gobineau and the Short Story, University...
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    François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly SMOM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a career French officer who achieved the...
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    The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of...
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    West Sussex Great Yarmouth Racecourse, Norfolk Newmarket Racecourses, Suffolk Nottingham Racecourse, Nottinghamshire Pontefract Racecourse, West Yorkshire...
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    of the Comte de Grasse, disagreements arose between Washington and Rochambeau on whether to ask de Grasse for assistance in besieging New York or in military...
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    a French fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Comte Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing attempted landings in New York and Newport, but due to a combination of...
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    additional troops. The French fleet at Newport was given a new commander, the Comte de Barras. De Barras was ordered to take the Newport fleet to harass British...
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    monarchy; the comte de Provence (brother of the executed Louis XVI) took the throne as Louis XVIII. Lafayette was received by the new king, but the staunch...
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    Secrétaire de la Province, avec un mémoire, en date du onze novembre (1873) soumet au Conseil la résolution du Conseil Municipal du Comté de Compton, en...
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    independence for the Thirteen Colonies. Admiral de Grasse had the option to attack British forces in either New York or Virginia; he opted for Virginia, arriving...
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