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32Simeon Deane to the Commissioners, 16 April 1778 (Adams Papers)
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33John Paul Jones to the Commissioners, 9 May 1778 (Adams Papers)
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34To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste-Lazare Théveneau de Francy, 10 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...ejected from the navy. He served in the French navy after the war and returned to America in...
35To Benjamin Franklin from Antoine Salvator, 16 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...Spanish treasure fleet; for its eventual arrival see Dull, French Navy, p. 127 n.
36Francis Coffyn to the Commissioners, 19 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
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37John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 23 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...what Britain would offer Spain to remain neutral: Dull, French Navy, p. 114.
38To Benjamin Franklin from Genet, 24 June 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...the next day the others were captured. See Dull, French Navy, pp. 118–19; William M. James,
39John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 27 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
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40John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 27 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...no official declaration of war was ever issued. Dull, French Navy, pp. 119–20.
41Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the American Commissioners, 3 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
, 680; Dull, French Navy, 118–20.
42The 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,
43From Benjamin Franklin to James Lovell, 22 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...from the 1777 expedition against Portuguese Brazil: Dull, French Navy, pp. 63, 75, 127 n...
44Dumas to the American Commissioners, 31 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., from Paris about the operations of the French navy and from London reporting the arrival...
45Intelligence from Toulon and Other Places, 3 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 352–5, provides information on French ship...
46From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, 8 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
...FLEET, which has blocked up the principal part of the French Navy assembled at Brest.”...
47John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 29 August 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
The failure of the French navy to provide convoy protection from port of departure to port...
48John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 8 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
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50Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
We have here a large portion of the French Navy. I never wanted to speak the language half so...
51The American Commissioners to Sartine, 12[–15] October 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Two British frigates captured by the French: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
52John Langdon to the Commissioners, 21 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
...principal agent for the company that supplied masts to the French Navy.
53John Langdon to the American Commissioners, 21 October 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...appropriate person that I will furnish the French navy with masts if someone in France will...
54Edmé Jacques Genet to John Adams: A Translation, 29 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
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55Intelligence 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....
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57To Benjamin Franklin from Horatio Gates, 4 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...was the sixth of his name to serve in the French navy or galleys: G. Lacour-Gayet,
58The American Commissioners to Sartine, 25 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
110n), and his letter offered to provide the French navy with masts:
59The 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...
60Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 20 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...; it was impossible for the French navy to provide protection for individual ships...