Admiral Comte de Grasse, commander of the…
February 1782 CE
The strategic objectives of the Franco-Spanish military forces in the West Indies in this plan were:
to aid the Americans and defeat the British naval squadron at New York
to capture the British Windward Islands and
to conquer Jamaica.
This plan has become known as the "De Grasse – Saavedra Convention", and the first objective had essentially been met with the surrender of the British army under General Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown in September 1781.
De Grasse and his fleet played a decisive part in that victory, after which they had sailed to the Caribbean.
On arrival in Saint Domingue in November 1781, he had been notified that the plan to conquer Jamaica would be implemented.
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Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
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Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis
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François-Joseph Paul de Grasse
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George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
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Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil
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Samuel Hood
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