1. French minister La Luzerne had sent GW an undated letter written in French with intelligence and a request to forward an enclosed letter to Lieutenant General Rochambeau (AL, DLC:GW; GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote on the docket: “Note from the Minister of France with intelligence from so. Carolina”). A translation of the report in Tilghman’s writing reads: “The News brought by the Brother of Mr Fitzsimmonds is that some days before his departure (7 of June) a Fleet of 60 sail arrived at Charlestown from Cork in Ireland having on board between three and four thousand Men of which 2000 were debarked and the rest sent to Augustin and New York. 25 sail escorted by a Vessel of 50 Guns would depart a little after for that last place. Lord Rawdon was at Charles town having been obliged to abandon his post at Motts. Georgetown is evacuated and there were not more than 450 regular troops at Charles town before the arrival of the Reinforcement, which alone hindered the evacuation of that town. All communication between that place and the Country was almost cut off by the Americans whose parties advanced often within 5 Miles. They knew nothing yet of the taking of pensacola. But they had sent some Reinforcements to Georgia a little time before” (DLC:GW; see also the entry for 25 June in Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:384). GW already had been advised of the fleet’s arrival (see John Sullivan to GW, 11 June, and n.5; see also GW to Rochambeau, 19 June, and n.4).

2. Barras replied to GW on 2 July.