* 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor ( d. 1953 )

In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

* May 25 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director ( b. 1873 )

* May 4 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director ( d. 1940 )

* June 12 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor ( d. 1953 )

De Grasse hastily prepared most of his fleet, 24 ships of the line, for battle and sailed out to meet Graves.

De Grasse arrived at Cap-Français on 15 August.

De Grasse had notified his counterpart in Newport, the Comte de Barras Saint-Laurent, of his intentions and his planned arrival date.

De Grasse had detached a few of his ships to blockade the York and James Rivers farther up the bay, and many of the ships at anchor were missing officers, men, and boats when the British fleet was sighted.

De Grasse gave signals for the van to move further ahead so that more of the French fleet might engage, but Bougainville, fully engaged with the British van at musket range, did not want to risk " severe handling had the French presented the stern.

De Grasse wrote that " we perceived by the sailing of the English that they had suffered greatly.

It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove.

* Sam De Grasse as Pirate Lieutenant

The French also returned the other Dutch colonies they had recaptured from the British, including the ones in the West Indies ( like St. Eustatius that had been taken by Admiral Rodney in February, 1781, but was retaken by the French Admiral De Grasse on November 27, 1781 )

De Grasse sailed from the West Indies and arrived at the Chesapeake Bay at the end of August, bringing additional troops and providing a naval blockade of Yorktown.

De Grasse had planned to leave several of his warships in Santo Domingo.

De Grasse encouraged Washington to come south where they could launch a joint operation.

De Grasse debarked his French troops to join Lafayette, and then sent his empty transports to pick up the American troops.

US Postage Stamp, 1931 issue, depicting Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau | Rochambeau, George Washington and François Joseph Paul de Grasse | De Grasse, commemorating 150th anniversary of the victory at Yorktown, 1781

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

the energetic Parisian, Roger De Damas, three year's Littlepage's junior, to whom Nassau had taken a liking ; ;

and the artillerist, Colonel Prevost, whom the Count De Segur had persuaded to lend his technical skills to Nassau.

Right now he found Sophie De Witt, that magnificent young matron he had spotted at Kamieniec four years ago.

Back and forth Duclos had to go, between M. De Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke D'Aumont and Jean Jacques again, as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, though still unperformed, took on ever more importance.

The Abbot of St. Eloi, Claude De Mommor, had been a good friend, but not even he thought Charles deserved burial in hallowed ground.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

So with four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 1, four of No. 2, four of No. 3 and four to six sets of the Incline Bench Press, you can see that Henri De Courcy has had a terrific mass-building, muscle-shaping, torso-defining workout that cannot be improved upon.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

He did believe that stones had occult properties, as he related in his work De mineralibus.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

Darkman was also a financial success and De Laurentiis had multi-picture deal with Universal and so Army of Darkness became one of the films.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

The Demolished Man was a novel that had fascinated De Palma since the late 1950s and appealed to his background in mathematics and avant-garde storytelling.

Gildas, in his 6th century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, may have been alluding to Boudica when he wrote " A treacherous lioness butchered the governors who had been left to give fuller voice and strength to the endeavours of Roman rule.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

This battle is of interest because it is surprising that an area so far east should still be in Briton hands this late: there is ample archaeological evidence of early Saxon and Anglian presence in the Midlands, and historians generally have interpreted Gildas's De Excidio as implying that the Britons had lost control of this area by the mid-sixth century.