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Column: The French Navy was forged by history at the Battle of the Chesapeake

“The Battle of the Virginia Capes” is a 1962 painting by Vladimir Zveg for the U.S. Navy, showing French and British warships exchanging broadsides off the Virginia coast on Sept. 5, 1781. (Courtesy Hampton Roads Naval Museum)
“The Battle of the Virginia Capes” is a 1962 painting by Vladimir Zveg for the U.S. Navy, showing French and British warships exchanging broadsides off the Virginia coast on Sept. 5, 1781. (Courtesy Hampton Roads Naval Museum)
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Commemorate the British-French naval battle of the Virginia coast that helped secure American independence, Chris Melhuish and Alban Théodose Morel write in a guest column.

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