1To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick Augustus Hervey, Sir Patrick Bellew, and ——— French, [before 10 September 1779] (Franklin Papers)
...be revealed in time—he spoke of the French navy’s devastation, of the government’s growing...
2Intelligence from Havana and Other Places, 13 November 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, 92, later 108): Dull, French Navy, pp. 135, 353....to the West Indies: Dull, French Navy, pp....
3Intelligence from Madrid and Other Places, 9 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...comes from the major ports used by the French navy is somewhat more substantial. As usual, the...
4Intelligence from Paris and Other Places, 1 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
, 70n; Dull, French Navy, p. 366; Jonathan R. Dull, “The French Navy and American Independence:...
5George Washington to George Clinton, 21 January 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
...concerning the seizure of wheat and flour intended for the French navy....the French navy in...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 8 July 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...its return to the Texel on Aug. 16: Dull, French Navy, p. 291....: Dull, French Navy, pp. 281,...
7Intelligence from Amsterdam and Other Places, 1 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...8 the correspondent recounts a battle between a French navy cargo ship (“gabarre du Roi”) and...
...with a slightly smaller number the following day: Dull, French Navy, 120–2; W.M. James,
9From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 8 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
The French navy was preparing convoys at Brest to transport reinforcements to India...
10From 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;...
11From Benjamin Franklin to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 4 January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
The French navy was far from ready. The British, nevertheless, were... .... Dull,French Navy...
12Intelligence from Paris and Other Places, 7 March 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...its ships of the line to reinforce Córdoba: Dull, French Navy, pp. 192–3, 366–8....French Navy...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 12 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...sending much-needed masts to the French Navy without fear of British interception; the...
14To Benjamin Franklin from William Bett, 18 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
The French Navy frigate , 26: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
15To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, August 28[–September 7] 1781 (Franklin Papers)
...behind and lost one because of an accident: Dull, French Navy, pp. 243, 245, 370–1.
16To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 20 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
could reach Brest: Dull, French Navy, p. 224. Although at least one ship from... ..., French Navy...
17From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 30 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...the Zuider Zee. Wood needed by the French navy had been accumulating at Amsterdam; see Dumas...
18Intelligence from Bilbao and Other Places, 3 July 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...undertaken in the port for the French navy and relays information from the captain...
19To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
...the Dutch navy to the war against Britain see Dull, French Navy, pp. 237–8, 372....French Navy...
20To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine, 5 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
). Although the French navy needed the timber and naval stores which had been accumulating...
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22Intelligence from Brest, 12 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, Feb. 1; Dull, French Navy, pp. 96 n, 102 n....Deane and his dispatches: Dull, French Navy,...
23Agreement 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...
24The 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...
25To Benjamin Franklin from John Paul Jones, 23 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...she did not serve thereafter with the French Navy. Instead, a former captain in the East India...
26From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 23 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
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27To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 27 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...comte de La Pérouse (d. 1788) joined the French navy as a cadet in 1756. Named a chevalier...
28George Washington to Marquis de Lafayette, 16 May 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
...de Guichen, lieutenant general and commander in chief of the French navy in the West Indies.
29To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...quantities of wood ordered by the French navy were accumulating at Amsterdam and Hamburg...
30To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 21 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
...known as La Motte-Picquet (1720–1791), entered the French navy in 1735 and by 1762 had risen to