1To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste-Lazare Théveneau de Francy, 10 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...vindicate himself. Instead, his increasingly erratic behavior drove the crew to mutiny on the grounds that their captain had gone insane. After a court-martial in January 1781, Landais was ejected from the navy. He served in the French navy after the war and returned to America in 1797, settling in New York City.
2To George Washington from Brigadier General Duportail, 27 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Duportail had conferred with Vice Admiral d’Estaing in the fall of 1778 about the French navy’s efforts to fortify parts of Boston Harbor (see
3To George Washington from Philip Schuyler, 18 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
...one of the French naval squadrons that Vice Admiral d’Estaing left in the West Indies when he returned to France after the failed attack on Savannah in early fall 1779. De Grasse had entered the French navy in 1740 and rose to lieutenant commander in 1754, full captain in 1762, and admiral of squadron in 1779. During June and July of that year, de Grasse participated in the capture...
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, 1774–1787
5To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 2 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
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6To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 11 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
and the passengers returned to town where they expect to continue until Graves gives a good account of the french navy which they say he will very soon doDull, French Navy
7To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 29 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
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8To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 31 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Hippolyte-Louis-Antoine, comte de Capellis (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