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...