"Prise de la Grenade. Le comet d'Estaing - 4 Juillet 1779", Anon.

A terrific view of French and American soldiers, led by Le Comte d'Estaing, storming up the hill and attempting to overrun the English fortifications. D'Estaing's forces, though superior in number, managed only a draw. He returned to France in 1780 and devoted his efforts to politics. During the French revolution, he sided with the reformists, but remained loyal to the Royal Family. In 1793, he testified on behalf of Marie Antoinette, and was eventually convicted of being a Royalist and guillotined. Drawn by Martinet, engraved by Gossard.

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Condition: B

Foxed mostly in the wide margins, barely visible within image. Left and right margins are folded back perhaps from a previous framing job, still leaving wide margins at the sides.