1Intelligence 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....
2Intelligence from Brest, 12 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, Feb. 1; Dull, French Navy, pp. 96 n, 102 n....Deane and his dispatches: Dull, French Navy,...
3John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 23 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...what Britain would offer Spain to remain neutral: Dull, French Navy, p. 114.
4Sartine to the American Commissioners, 11 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
, p. 298; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.
5John 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...
6Dumas to the American Commissioners, 31 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., from Paris about the operations of the French navy and from London reporting the arrival...
7Gérard to the American Commissioners, 17 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...French Ambassador was ordered home from London. See Dull, French Navy, pp. 103–5.
8Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 20 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...; it was impossible for the French navy to provide protection for individual ships...
9John 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...
10Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the American Commissioners, 3 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
, 680; Dull, French Navy, 118–20.