Michel, Chevalier de Grammont, a nobleman who…
June 1678 CE
Michel, Chevalier de Grammont, a nobleman who had come into disfavor after killing his sister's suitor in a duel and was forced to leave France, had in about 1670 gone to Hispaniola, where he had been given a French ship.
Serving as a privateer, his first success had been the capture of a Dutch convoy, valued at about four hundred thousand livres (four million US dollars).
On his next voyage he had run up onto a reef and sunk.
Grammont had then moved to Tortuga, where he bought and outfitted a new ship which he uses to attack Spanish shipping.
When war broke out between France and Holland, he had joined the fleet under the command of Comte d'Estrées for an abortive raid on the Dutch island of Curaçao in which the entire fleet of seventeen vessels had been wrecked on the Los Roques Archipelago (Las Aves).
De Grammont is in June 1678 made commander of the six ships and seven hundred men salvaged from the Las Aves Disaster.
He lands his men in Spanish-held Venezuela and captures Maracaibo, ...
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