1To George Washington from Barras, 23 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
...of the society to make the French navy captains eligible for election to the...
2To George Washington from James Bowdoin, 17 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Dull, French Navy
3To 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...
4To 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...
5To George Washington from Peter Delivet, 16 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
in the French navy, arrived in Baltimore in April 1786 as a commercial...
6To George Washington from Captain Destouches, 15 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
...“an officer in high estimation among all ranks of the French navy.”
7To 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...
8To 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...
9To 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...
10To 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...