Storm over Savannah: The Story of Count d'Estaing and the Siege of the Town in 1779

xii, 217 pp. Includes frontispiece, eight portraits, and a large fold-out reproducing a French plan and a British map of the area. A "revised edition of a study originally published in 1951, [which] relates for the first time in detail the fascinating story of the attempt and failure to take Savannah - an event of far-reaching importance in the American Revolution. Charles-Henri, Comte d'Estaing, who commanded the French land and naval forces that came to Georgia, was an extraordinary individual, and with him was a highly interesting group of officers. They numbered famous French sea fighters, celebrated global navigators, noblemen with thousand-year-old names, elegant beaux of the Petit Trianon, future generals and admirals of the Republic and the Empire, and youths destined for large parts on the political stage of France in the turbulent times that lay ahead. The author gives an account of what happened to the principal personages after the Siege."