Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Grasse, Henri, Comte de, French admiral, was born at Valettes, Provence, in 1723. and is best known as having been the adversary of" Hood, off Martinique, 1781, of Graves in Lynn Haven Bay in the same year, and of Rodney off St. Christopher, and again off Martinique in 1782. He died in 1788.