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...
61To George Washington from Brigadier General Duportail, 27 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
...’Estaing in the fall of 1778 about the French navy’s efforts to fortify parts of Boston Harbor...
62To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Digges, 31 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...duc de Lauzun, were soon to capture Senegal: Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 159n.
63Sartine to the American Commissioners, 11 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
, p. 298; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.
64To Benjamin Franklin from François Bordot, 27 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
..., 1778, was also rated at 26 cannon. Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
65To Benjamin Franklin from the Duc de Croÿ, [1 March 1779] (Franklin Papers)
...summer of 1778 to issue such orders to all French navy warships, and in January, 1779, to all...
66The Duc de Croÿ’s Account of a Dinner with Franklin, [1 March 1779] (Franklin Papers)
...was necessary to win her cooperation: Dull, French Navy, p. 137. For a discussion of the...
67Intelligence 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...
68From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 4 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
..., and money that the dockyards were facing see Dull, French Navy, pp. 145–6.
69To John Adams from Pierre Landais, 9 March 1779 (Adams Papers)
.... Landais had served in the French navy and had been a member of Bougainville’s...
70To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [20 March 1779] (Franklin Papers)
...then proceeded to the West Indies: Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 159n. Vergennes reported the...
71To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Kéralio, 21 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...his two ships of the line: Larousse; Dull, French Navy, p. 125. The duc de Lauzun commanded...
72From Benjamin Franklin to ——— Gratien, 27 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
For the French navy’s new regulations on prizes see
73To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 28 March 1779 (Adams Papers)
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74To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Brault and ——— Demezandré, 1 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...complaints in 1786 launched a French navy department inquiry into American competition...
75From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 3 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...fifty-five ships of the line ready: Dull, French Navy, p. 138n. At the moment a scathing...
76To Benjamin Franklin from Landais, 6 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...Martinique aboard the West Indies convoy: Dull, French Navy, p. 377. At the beginning of...
77To Benjamin Franklin from Landais, 19 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
, 26; see Dull, French Navy, p. 356.
78To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine, 27 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...great British naval base at Portsmouth; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 136–43 and, for the current...
79To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 29 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...him to take the offensive against Admiral Byron: Dull, French Navy, pp. 159–60.
80From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 3 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...27: Auphan, “Communications,” p. 345; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.