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)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
French Navy and Amer. Independence
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...