ARP311 Battle of the Saintes

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The French recapture St. Eustatius in late 1781, just as the French fleet under Admiral De Grasse returns from Yorktown. With the arrival of the fleet, the French also capture St. Kitts. Admiral Rodney and Admiral Hood join together to defeat the French fleet at the battle of the Saintes. Just as that battle is coming to an end, the Spanish, using American privateers capture the Bahamas. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Rodney and the Breaking of the Line, by Peter Trew. Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney, Vol. 2, edited by Godfrey Mundy: https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden02munduoft Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	F-A-Q. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:49.4	This week episode 311 the Battle of the Saints.
0:53.7	Following the Franco-American victory at Yorktown in October of 1781,
0:58.9	General Washington had pleaded with Admiral degrass
1:02.1	to make use of the French naval fleet for a few other actions.
1:05.7	Washington believed that even a few weeks at Charleston, South Carolina
1:10.2	would allow Nathaniel Green's southern army to take that town.
1:13.6	The French commander, however, would not budge.
1:16.8	He'd already spent longer than he planned in Virginia.
1:20.0	The only reason he'd removed his fleet from the West Indies in the first place was to avoid peak hurricane season.
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