1To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Kalm, 6 August 1749 (Franklin Papers)
...of the bureau of maps and plans of the French Navy, and in 1750–54 was one of the...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 10 June[–2 July 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 6–9, 31–3, 36–7,...
The French navy was far from ready. The British, nevertheless, were... .... Dull,French Navy...
4The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 17[–22] January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...were actually being made were less impressive; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 63–4.
5To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Brus, 6 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...June 1 Bruslé, a surgeon in the French navy, inquires from Paris whether Franklin is...
6William 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.
7Conrad-Alexandre Gérard to the American Commissioners, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...1 (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 29–32, and French Navy, pp. 83–101.
8Intelligence from Brest, 12 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, Feb. 1; Dull, French Navy, pp. 96 n, 102 n....Deane and his dispatches: Dull, French Navy,...
9To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis d’Argenson, 24 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...been a former auxiliary officer in the French navy. He specialized in Anglo-French trade and...
10To Benjamin Franklin from the Duchesse de Melfort, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...a chevalier de St.-Louis and a captain in the French navy by the time he died in 1779: