11From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
...) was born in Brittany and served in the French navy. He entered American service in 1777...
12To James Madison from William Lee, 14 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
...ship Broker a Capt de la Rue of the French Navy and an Irish Lawyer, by the name of McDonald...
13From James Madison to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
...extract. He added that the irregularities of the French navy to which JM referred “are those...
14To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 18 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...his claim because he was serving in the French navy at the time his claim originated; Barney...
15To James Madison from Stephen Cathalan Jr., 27 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...the result was that the Agent of the french Navy requested the Arrest of the whole Crew...
16To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 9 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
...instituted in Charleston against Ensign Sachs of the French navy, who commands the sloop...
17To James Madison from Vincent Gray, 28 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
..., who claimed to be an officer of the French navy, was a bad prize and ordered the...
18Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 February 1804 (Adams Papers)
...brother of Napoleon and an officer in the French Navy. The couple were both teenagers when...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 4 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
in the French navy proved him to be at least 21 years of age...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...the first Consul. He is a Captain in the French Navy, and, it is said, that, to avoid...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 8 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...Pierre Meyronnet, another officer of the French navy; Alexander Lecamus, Bonaparte’s secretary...
22To James Madison from William Jarvis, 16 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...and educated at Paris. He enlisted in the French navy at the age of fifteen and served...
23John Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 26 September 1802 (Adams Papers)
...sample ‘of oppressed humanity.’” The French navy relocated around 2,000 of the exiles...
24From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...America. According to one estimate, the French navy deposited about 2,000 of the exiles...
25To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 8 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...very moderate terms—The french Navy has adopted the principle, after a Variety of...
26To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 8 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...one created by the Sieur Bouïbe and tested by the French navy in the 1780s. Citizen
27To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 22 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
...went to sea at fourteen, served in the French navy under the comte d’Estaing during the...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, [16 February 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
...Villaret de Joyeuse (1748–1812) joined the French navy as a volunteer in 1765. He became...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
..., by all the chief officers of the French Navy of this Department, (who all did...
30To James Madison from Joshua Barney, [4 August] 1801 (Madison Papers)
in the French navy, had already written Jefferson offering his services “in any...
31To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Barney, 5 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
(post captain) in the French Navy in 1795, but at the lowest tier of that...
32To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 20 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
...perhaps now become auspicious to the French Navy and accelerate the General Peace which...
33Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 28 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
...of one of the swiftest vessels of the French Navy. Since the engagement took place after the...
34From Alexander Hamilton to William Vans Murray, [July–August 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
...de Colbert, had served with the French navy during the American Revolution. Soon...
35To Alexander Hamilton from Chevalier de Colbert, 6–8 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Colbert served with the French navy during the American Revolution. Soon after the outbreak of...
36Edmund Randolph’s Notes on the Common Law, [ca. September] 1799 (Madison Papers)
...had accepted an officer’s commission in the French navy and later had been naturalized as a...
37To Alexander Hamilton from Chevalier de Colbert, 9 March [1799] (Hamilton Papers)
Colbert served with the French navy during the American Revolution. Soon after the outbreak of...
38John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...domestic matters before remarking on the French Navy’s defeat at the Battle of...
39Enclosure: [Characters Not Referred to in “The Embassy”], [20 November 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
...From 1796 to 1802 he was a captain in the French navy.
40John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
...Nov. 1798 discussing the state of the French Navy following recent defeats in Egypt and in the...