The Naval Campaigns of Count De Grasse During the American Revolution 1781 - 1783
Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 203 pages. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt decoration on the front board. Frontispiece bound in upside down, and a 2.5-inch diagonal crease to the upper corner of one leaf, pages 37-38, but otherwise in fine condition. Item #755
"Translated from the Swedish with Introduction, Notes and Appendices, Containing a List of Swedish Officers Who Took Part in the Struggle, by Amandus Johnson." Tornquist was a young Swedish naval officer serving in the French navy under Count De Grasse, whose efforts during the war contributed significantly to the colonists' victory over the English. A nicely produced book, illustrated with the frontispiece of the count, six other plates on glossy paper showing reproductions of documents and earlier works' title pages, and eight other plates charting naval actions in various battles.
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