81From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 3 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...27: Auphan, “Communications,” p. 345; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.
82From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 4 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
83To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine, 4 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...of England; for their distribution see Dull, French Navy, pp. 362–3. In the autumn of...
84To Benjamin Franklin from Ralph Izard and Arthur Lee, 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
’s letter to Lee of May 3 and Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 146, 159–60, 363.
85To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 8 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...appointed Director of Naval Optics of the French Navy and made a French citizen. Priestley...
86To Benjamin Franklin from John Paul Jones, 14 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...Jones’s squadron eventually contained three warships lent by the French navy, the frigate
87From Benjamin Franklin to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 26 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
During 1779, the French navy cost some 150,000,000 ...been heavy: Dull, French Navy, pp. 345–50;...
88To Benjamin Franklin from Bordot, 2 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...-gun frigate recently launched at Rochefort: Dull, French Navy, p. 357. The news of her...
89To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 9 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...… (London, 1919), pp. 119–21; Dull, French Navy, p. 150.
90To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...quantities of wood ordered by the French navy were accumulating at Amsterdam and Hamburg...