Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac, chevalier de Ternay was a French naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. He led a French expedition which captured St. John's,
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Ternay's grave at the Trinity Churchyard in Newport
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The Special Expedition was an expeditionary force deployed by France to North America to support the United States against Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Arriving at Newport, Rho
Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay
…captured St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762. During the American Revolutionary War, Terney was appointed commander of the French Navy contingent of the Expédition Particulière, which brought thousands of French Royal Army troops to the United States in 1780. However, he died in Newport, Rhode Island not long after arriving…
Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on 11 July 1780, under the command of Comte de Rochambeau
Siège de Yorktown by Auguste Couder, c.1836. Rochambeau and Washington giving their last orders before the battle.