1To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste-Lazare Théveneau de Francy, 10 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...ejected from the navy. He served in the French navy after the war and returned to America in...
2To George Washington from Brigadier General Duportail, 27 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
...’Estaing in the fall of 1778 about the French navy’s efforts to fortify parts of Boston Harbor...
3To George Washington from Philip Schuyler, 18 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
...fall 1779. De Grasse had entered the French navy in 1740 and rose to lieutenant commander...
4To George Washington from William Gordon, 29 February 1780–1 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy,...
5To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 2 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
6To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 11 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
...continue until Graves gives a good account of the french navy which they say he will very soon...
7To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 29 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
8To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 31 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
...(later marquis du Fort; 1744–1813), joined the French navy as a
9To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 7 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
10To George Washington from James Bowdoin, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
11To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 19 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
12To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 21 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
...known as La Motte-Picquet (1720–1791), entered the French navy in 1735 and by 1762 had risen to
13To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 31 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
...stationed at Newport, and with the French navy under Ternay just offshore, the...
14To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 30 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
...baron de Monteil (1725–1787), entered the French navy in 1741 and attained the rank of...
15To George Washington from Colonel Stephen Moylan, 7 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
16To George Washington from Captain Destouches, 15 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
...“an officer in high estimation among all ranks of the French navy.”
17To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 16 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
...expect News from My friend The New Minister of the french Navy,
18To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 10 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
19To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 8 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
20To George Washington from Major General Steuben, 18 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
..., comte de Tilly (1733–1812), entered the French navy in 1750 and was named a chevalier of the...
21To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 23 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...of Captain La Touche-Tréville, became a captain in the French navy in 1757 and a
22To George Washington from Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 27 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...comte de La Pérouse (d. 1788) joined the French navy as a cadet in 1756. Named a chevalier...
23To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 9 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
...Boat the only son of the Minister of the French Navy, whom I’ll take out to speak if...
24To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 23 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
...long time Venture down. An officer of the french Navy Bore down to them from York, and...
25To George Washington from William Fitzhugh, 6 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
...were on Board the Magnanime a ship of the French Navy When the Fleet Sail’d from the Bay of...
26To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 17 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
...assure the possession of that harbour to the french navy now there, and that may arrive in...
27To George Washington from d’Estaing, 8 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
...(1729–1794), as vice admiral in the French navy and senior naval officer in American waters...
28To George Washington from Barras, 23 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
...of the society to make the French navy captains eligible for election to the...
29Appendix III: From Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, 10 May (Washington Papers)
...if you will weigh the merit which the French Navy has acquired in the service of the American...
30To George Washington from La Touche-Tréville, 15 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
...1782. La Touche-Tréville was a vice admiral in the French navy at the time of his death.
31To George Washington from Lafayette, 24 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
...think that so far as Respects the Contract with the french Navy they may Be Useful to each other.
32To George Washington from John Mary, 21 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
...Kept your quarters, about flour for the french navy i had undertaken to provide with a...
33To George Washington from Saint-Jean, 24 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
...(1728–1802), who had served in the French navy since 1743, took part in French naval...
34To George Washington from Benjamin Dubois, 18 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
...). The younger Dubois had served in the French navy himself from the 1750s to the 1770s...
35To George Washington from Peter Delivet, 16 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
in the French navy, arrived in Baltimore in April 1786 as a commercial...
36To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 4 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
..., who I declined entering into the French Navy, for good & Substantial reasons given...
37To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 29 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Brest was the principal French navy base on the Atlantic. France and Great Britain were...
38To George Washington from Henry Knox, 24 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Serving in the French navy by 1778, he participated in
engagements at Grenada and...
39To George Washington from Amelie-Maxime-Rosalie de Grasse, 12 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
..., marquis de Tilly, who had commanded the French navy at the siege of Yorktown, had arrived...
40To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
.... Valoruche, a petty officer in the French navy, requesting that Humphreys intervene on behalf...
41To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, c.16 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
...(1757–1799), a career officer in the French navy, had been promoted to admiral in early...
42To George Washington from the Chevalier de Colbert, c. January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...de Maulévrier) (1758–1820) served in the French navy as a midshipman in 1775 and was promoted...
43To George Washington from Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline-Antoinette Pernot, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...Caumont. William served for a time in the French navy and was a member of the Royal and...