In 1779 , more than 500 recruits from Saint-Domingue ( the French colony which later became Becoming Haiti ) , under the overall command Control of French nobleman Charles Hector , Comte d'Estaing , fought Hostile_encounter alongside American colonial troops against the British Army during the siege of Savannah .

The combatants Hostile_encounter were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul , the Comte de Grasse .