Georges Henri Victor Collot papers, 1793-1794.
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France. Armée
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The Charles Henri, comte d’Estaing Journal Militaire traces the efforts of France to engage the British military in Europe during the American Revolutionary War. After d’Estaing unsuccessfully attempted to defeat the British navy in North America between 1777 and 1780, he turned his attention to allying with Spain for the siege on Gibraltar. The Franco-Spanish forces blockaded Gibraltar from to December 1779 to February 1783, and though they succeeded in taking Minorca on February 5...
Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Georges H.V. Collot was born in Chalons-surMarne in 1751 or 1752, and died in Paris in July, 1805. He was named governor of Guadeloupe, and after much political strife, he was able to reorganized the government in 1793. The following year the British, after taking Martinique, came to Guadeloupe and forced Collot to surrender. In 1796 he ascended the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as far as Cincinnati, making a survey of their courses, and cherishing the ambition of uniting French Canada with Louisi...
