1The American Commissioners to the Comte de Vergennes, 7 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...ordered its patrols to give protection on demand. Dull, French Navy, pp. 64–5, 70–1; Stevens,
2The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 12 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 77–8; Clark,
3The American Commissioners to Vergennes, [before 9 January 1779]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 125, 128–35, 362–3.Dull, French Navy, pp. 131–2, 137, 141. The final...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 24 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...from New York to the West Indies: Dull, French Navy, p. 308n. The only related rumor we...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 15 November 1782 (Franklin Papers)
, 211–22; Dull, French Navy, pp. 321–2; Morris,