1Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the American Commissioners, 3 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
, 680; Dull, French Navy, 118–20.
2Dumas to the American Commissioners, 31 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., from Paris about the operations of the French navy and from London reporting the arrival...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 29 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...him to take the offensive against Admiral Byron: Dull, French Navy, pp. 159–60.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 9 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...… (London, 1919), pp. 119–21; Dull, French Navy, p. 150.
5To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...quantities of wood ordered by the French navy were accumulating at Amsterdam and Hamburg...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 10 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
, p. 185n; Dull, French Navy, pp. 175–6. The
7To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 7 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
1907–33); Dull, French Navy, pp. 188–9, 368.
8To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 12 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...sending much-needed masts to the French Navy without fear of British interception; the...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 11 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
...the Dutch navy to the war against Britain see Dull, French Navy, pp. 237–8, 372....French Navy...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 24 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
One attempted to sail the following month: Dull, French Navy, p. 237.