Tribute to Admiral de Grasse
To
Comte Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse
Admiral of the French Fleet
"Arbiter Of The War"
— — — General George Washington
Victor in the only decisive Naval Battle
in the American Revolution ( the Virginia
Capes, on Sept. 5, 1781) One of history's most
significant, presaging the British
surrender at Yorktown and fulfillment
of the dream of an independent America
Presented By
The National Society of the
Colonial Dames of America
in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Marker is on Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (U.S. 13), in the median.
Courtesy hmdb.org
