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Graves holds council with Hood and Drake …
Years: 1781 - 1781
September
Graves holds council with Hood and Drake on the night of September 6.
During this meeting Hood and Graves supposedly exchanged words concerning the conflicting signals, and Hood proposes turning the fleet around to make for the Chesapeake.
Graves rejects the plan, and the fleets continue to drift eastward, away from Cornwallis.
During this meeting Hood and Graves supposedly exchanged words concerning the conflicting signals, and Hood proposes turning the fleet around to make for the Chesapeake.
Graves rejects the plan, and the fleets continue to drift eastward, away from Cornwallis.
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- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- François-Joseph Paul de Grasse
- Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
- Samuel Hood
- Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet
- Thomas Graves
Groups
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)
Topics
- American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence
- American Revolutionary War, Southern theater of the
- Yorktown, Siege of
- Chesapeake, Battle of the
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Years: 1781 - 1781
September
Locations
People
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- François-Joseph Paul de Grasse
- Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
- Samuel Hood
- Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet
- Thomas Graves
Groups
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)
Topics
- American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence
- American Revolutionary War, Southern theater of the
- Yorktown, Siege of
- Chesapeake, Battle of the
Subjects
Regions
Subregions