Talk:USS Duc de Lauzun

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Military history: Maritime / North America / United States / Early Modern / American Revolution

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Questions

1) It seems a bit strange that a British customs vessel would be named after a leading French general fighting Britain in America. Could this vessel have had another name and have been renamed in France?
2) It is also curious that the Americans would be able to buy a vessel at Dover, England, while England was technically still at war with France and America. Negotiations had begun, but there was no preliminary peace treaty between England and America until November 1782. French records have the Americans buying Duc de Lauzun in France.
3) Why would Duc de Lauzun sail in 1783 to deliver the news of Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown, which had occurred in September 1781?

There seem to be some big holes in this story that need further substantiation and explanation.Acad Ronin (talk) 21:26, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]