1William Bingham to the American Commissioners, 28 November 1777[–4 December 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...join the Franco-American alliance the following spring. Dull, French Navy, pp. 81, 94–5.
2Conrad-Alexandre Gérard to the American Commissioners, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...1 (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 29–32, and French Navy, pp. 83–101.
3Intelligence from Brest, 12 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, Feb. 1; Dull, French Navy, pp. 96 n, 102 n....Deane and his dispatches: Dull, French Navy,...
4Franklin and Silas Deane to Arthur Lee, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
’s 26: Dull, French Navy, p. 356.
5Gérard to the American Commissioners, 17 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...French Ambassador was ordered home from London. See Dull, French Navy, pp. 103–5.
6John Paul Jones to the American Commissioners, 4 April 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...She was new, and of only 26 guns: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
7John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 23 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...what Britain would offer Spain to remain neutral: Dull, French Navy, p. 114.
8John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 27 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...no official declaration of war was ever issued. Dull, French Navy, pp. 119–20.
9Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the American Commissioners, 3 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
, 680; Dull, French Navy, 118–20.
10Dumas to the American Commissioners, 31 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., from Paris about the operations of the French navy and from London reporting the arrival...
11Intelligence from Toulon and Other Places, 3 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 352–5, provides information on French ship...
12John 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...
13John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 8 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
14John Langdon to the Commissioners, 21 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
...principal agent for the company that supplied masts to the French Navy.
15John 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...
16Intelligence 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....
17Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 20 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...; it was impossible for the French navy to provide protection for individual ships...
18Sartine to the American Commissioners, 11 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
, p. 298; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.
19From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 3 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...27: Auphan, “Communications,” p. 345; Dull, French Navy, p. 160.