11Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
...1787), was the treasurer general of the French Navy and a wealthy businessman with vast...
12Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 August 1793 (Adams Papers)
...administration for enlisting in the French Navy, which the president considered a...
13John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
...Islands a Conquest to England: The French Navy wholly ruined: and Insurrection spreading from...
14Thomas 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...
15Thomas 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...
16John 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...
17John 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...
18John 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...
19Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 17 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650–1815
20John 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...
21John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...domestic matters before remarking on the French Navy’s defeat at the Battle of...
22Abigail 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...
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...
24Louisa 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...
25Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...the Chevalier de Drucour, a Captain in the French Navy. At Louisbourg on 1 July 1758 the...
26Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...Great Britain it was likely that the French Navy would be rendered relatively impotent, as...
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28Simeon Deane to the Commissioners, 16 April 1778 (Adams Papers)
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29John Paul Jones to the Commissioners, 9 May 1778 (Adams Papers)
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30Francis Coffyn to the Commissioners, 19 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
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31John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 27 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
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32John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 8 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
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34John Langdon to the Commissioners, 21 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
...principal agent for the company that supplied masts to the French Navy.
35Edmé Jacques Genet to John Adams: A Translation, 29 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
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36Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...that Spain entered the war; and the French navy’s size, which prevented any substantial...
37To John Adams from Pierre Landais, 9 March 1779 (Adams Papers)
.... Landais had served in the French navy and had been a member of Bougainville’s...
38To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 28 March 1779 (Adams Papers)
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39From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 4 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
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40From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 3 August 1779 (Adams Papers)
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41To John Adams from Arthur Lee, 24 September 1779 (Adams Papers)
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42To John Adams from Richard Henry Lee, 8 October 1779 (Adams Papers)
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43To John Adams from Nicolas Maurice Gellée, 11 October 1779 (Adams Papers)
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44To John Adams from Arthur Lee, 4 December 1779 (Adams Papers)
...but privateers ignores the fact that the French navy outfitted and maintained the ships...
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46To John Adams from Joseph Gardoqui & Sons, 19 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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47From John Adams to Samuel Cooper, 23 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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48From John Adams to James Warren, 23 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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49From John Adams to Bidé de Chavagnes, 24 February 1780 (Adams Papers)
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51From John Adams to Joseph Gardoqui & Sons, 1 March 1780 (Adams Papers)
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52From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 March 1780 (Adams Papers)
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53To John Adams from Thomas Digges, 14 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
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54To John Adams from William Lee, 25 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
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55To John Adams from John Bondfield, 6 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
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56From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 62, 9 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
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57To John Adams from John Bondfield, 28 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
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59Committee of the Massachusetts General Court to John Adams and Francis Dana, 22 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
...Austin proposed that Massachusetts supply the French navy with masts in exchange for money...
60To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 24 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
...fleet’s presence curtailed any major offensive actions by the French navy (