1Intelligence from Bilbao and Other Places, 3 July 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...undertaken in the port for the French navy and relays information from the captain...
2Intelligence 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...
3Sartine to the American Commissioners, 11 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
, p. 298; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.
4Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 20 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...; it was impossible for the French navy to provide protection for individual ships...
5Intelligence 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....
6John 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...
7John 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...
8Intelligence from Toulon and Other Places, 3 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 352–5, provides information on French ship...
9Dumas to the American Commissioners, 31 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., from Paris about the operations of the French navy and from London reporting the arrival...
10Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the American Commissioners, 3 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
, 680; Dull, French Navy, 118–20.