Jacques-Aimé Le Saige de La Villèsbrunne was a French Navy officer. He served in the

War of American Independence The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

Biography

Le Saige captained the 32-gun frigate ''Gentille'' in the Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780, and in the action of 19 February 1781 where he helped capture HMS ''Romulus''. Le Saige was then given command of the newly recommissioned ''Romulus'', and took part in the

Battle of Cape Henry The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron led by Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French fleet under Admiral ...

on 16 March 1781. After the battle, he was promoted to the command of a division composed of the frigates ''Gentille'', ''Diligente'', ''Aigrette'', ''Iris'' and ''Richemond''. In September 1781, she ferried Vioménil's troops to Williamsburg for the

Siege of Yorktown The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies), beginning on September 28, 1781, and ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virgi ...

. After the Franco-American victory at Yorktown, De Grasse left Le Saige to patrol the Chesapeake with ''Romulus'', ''Hermione'' and ''Diligente''. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

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