Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.


To the Marquis de Lafayette (15 November 1781)


Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.