21To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis d’Argenson, 24 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...been a former auxiliary officer in the French navy. He specialized in Anglo-French trade and...
22The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance, 6 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...time be a party to the treaties; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 94–101.
23Franklin and Silas Deane to Arthur Lee, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
’s 26: Dull, French Navy, p. 356.
24To Benjamin Franklin from the Duchesse de Melfort, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...a chevalier de St.-Louis and a captain in the French navy by the time he died in 1779:
25To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph-Etienne Bertier, 3 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...has been through eighteen campaigns as a surgeon in the French navy.
26Gérard to the American Commissioners, 17 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...French Ambassador was ordered home from London. See Dull, French Navy, pp. 103–5.
27To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Louitz(?), 21 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...ship now that his two brothers are in the French navy. He can leave in a fortnight if Franklin...
28To Benjamin Franklin from [ ——— Montécot], 26 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...Monttessuy, a Parisian banker who supplies the French navy with wood, sailcloth, rope, and tar...
29To Benjamin Franklin from the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 27 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...Breton ports to stimulate British fears of invasion: Dull, French Navy, p. 112 n.
30John Paul Jones to the American Commissioners, 4 April 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...She was new, and of only 26 guns: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.