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Example sentences for: grasse
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De Grasse’s fleet of 34 warships was escorting a convoy of 150 cargo vessels to Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic and Haiti) planning to join a Spanish naval venture against Britain’s base on Jamaica.
As the islanders watched from their hills, the more mobile British mercilessly chopped up the French convoy until finally de Grasse surrendered.
On 12 April 1782, in the sea channel near Guadeloupe’s little off-shore islands of Les Saintes, a British fleet gained historic revenge against French Admiral de Grasse, of Yorktown fame, in a battle that is still talked about today.
Grass, on the other hand, might make sense for Chanel, for many of the flowers used in Chanel perfumes are cultivated at Grasse, a town in southern France.