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...
41John Quincy Adams to Charles Adams, 4 November 1795 (Adams Papers)
The French Navy had only a limited impact on the British, but......: The British & French Navies...
42[May 1785] (Adams Papers)
...man. If such men had the command in the french Navy, they would not be so often exposed to...
43Thursday 23d Of December. (Adams Papers)
The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy,...
444th. (Adams Papers)
The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy,
45[April 1785] (Adams Papers)
The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy,...to the French navy...
46[December 1779] (Adams Papers)
The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy,......the French navy in...
47Friday 24th. (Adams Papers)
became vice admiral in the French navy in 1777 and took command of the fleet organized to...
489th. (Adams Papers)
Possibly Edward Stack, an Irish officer attached to the French navy on Jones’
49John 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...
50Louisa 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...
51Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 July 1795 (Adams Papers)
The French Navy, which had been considerably strengthened in the late 1780s,... ...the French Navy...
52Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 August 1793 (Adams Papers)
...administration for enlisting in the French Navy, which the president considered a...
53Thomas Boylston Adams to John Read, 2 May 1795 (Adams Papers)
...at hand, may add a few Ships to the french Navy, but will not make them masters of the Sea...
54Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 17 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650–1815
55To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 31 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
...at Philadelphia and purchasing agent of the French navy. Four years later he became consul...
56Agreement between the American Commissioners and Jacques Boux, 12 February 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...Boux had achieved an eminence in the French navy remarkable for one who was not of noble birth...
57The American Commissioners to Henry Johnson, 28 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 78–80.
58The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 12 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 77–8; Clark,
59The American Commissioners to the Comte de Vergennes, 7 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...ordered its patrols to give protection on demand. Dull, French Navy, pp. 64–5, 70–1; Stevens,
60The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 17[–22] January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...were actually being made were less impressive; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 63–4.