11From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 3 August 1779 (Adams Papers)
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12From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 5 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
..., Mr Marbois and twenty Officers of the French Navy “Your Country is about to become...
13John Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 26 September 1802 (Adams Papers)
...sample ‘of oppressed humanity.’” The French navy relocated around 2,000 of the exiles...
14[1779 December 13. Monday.] (Adams Papers)
...Officers of the Fleet in all the Luxury of the French Navy.
15John Adams to Marquis de Castries, 9 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
The French Navy’s generally poor opinion of the quality of American masts...
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17John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 13 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
...in June 1784 “a plan to furnish the French navy with all kinds of construction wood, masts,...
18The American Commissioners to the President of Congress, 20 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...with a slightly smaller number the following day: Dull, French Navy, 120–2; W.M. James,
19The American Commissioners to Sartine, 25 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
110n), and his letter offered to provide the French navy with masts:
20The American Commissioners to Sartine, 12[–15] October 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Two British frigates captured by the French: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
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22John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
...Islands a Conquest to England: The French Navy wholly ruined: and Insurrection spreading from...
23John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1796 (Adams Papers)
....S. shipping in the West Indies by the French Navy and expressed his strong hope that “a...
24John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...domestic matters before remarking on the French Navy’s defeat at the Battle of...
25The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance, 6 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...time be a party to the treaties; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 94–101.
26From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 4 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
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27The American Commissioners to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 18 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...to take any action until her fleets returned: Dull, French Navy, pp. 100, 102.
28John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 December 1796 (Adams Papers)
...Barney, who was then in the service of the French Navy, had arrived in Annapolis, Md., and was...
29From John Adams to Samuel Cooper, 23 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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30From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 2 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
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32From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 62, 9 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
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33From John Adams to James Warren, 23 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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344. To Hendrik Calkoen, 7 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
.... It should also be remembered that the French Navy have never untill this Year, been...
35From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 March 1780 (Adams Papers)
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36The American Commissioners’ Interview on January 8 with Gérard: Four Documents, 1778 (Franklin Papers)
For the background of this decision see Dull, French Navy, pp. 94–100.
37To Benjamin Franklin from John Adams, 13 June 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...the idea of a separate peace with Britain: Dull, French Navy, pp. 285–6.
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39The American Commissioners to Vergennes, [before 9 January 1779]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 128–35, 362–3.Dull, French Navy, pp. 131–2, 137, 141. The final...
4025th. (Adams Papers)
...man. If such men had the command in the french Navy, they would not be so often exposed to...