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)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
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.
81From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 4 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
82To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine, 4 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...of England; for their distribution see Dull, French Navy, pp. 362–3. In the autumn of...
83To Benjamin Franklin from Ralph Izard and Arthur Lee, 6 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
’s letter to Lee of May 3 and Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 146, 159–60, 363.
84To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 8 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...appointed Director of Naval Optics of the French Navy and made a French citizen. Priestley...
85To Benjamin Franklin from John Paul Jones, 14 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...Jones’s squadron eventually contained three warships lent by the French navy, the frigate
86From Benjamin Franklin to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 26 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
During 1779, the French navy cost some 150,000,000 ...been heavy: Dull, French Navy, pp. 345–50;...
87To Benjamin Franklin from Bordot, 2 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...-gun frigate recently launched at Rochefort: Dull, French Navy, p. 357. The news of her...
88To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 9 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...… (London, 1919), pp. 119–21; Dull, French Navy, p. 150.
89To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...quantities of wood ordered by the French navy were accumulating at Amsterdam and Hamburg...
90To Benjamin Franklin from John Bondfield, 15 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...point for the Franco-Spanish fleet: Dull, French Navy, p. 149. See Bondfield’s letter...