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Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine to the American Commissioners, 26 April 1778: résumé
Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine to the American Commissioners2
LS: Harvard University Library
<Versailles, April 26, 1778, in French: When the Boston arrived, the King's order to treat American warships as those of an ally had not reached Bordeaux. Such ships must identify themselves when they enter harbor as men-of-war; private vessels never receive a salute.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
2. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 57–8.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0296
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Franklin Papers
Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de
American Commissioners
Lee, Arthur
"Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine to the American Commissioners, 26 April 1778: résumé," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0296. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 348–349.]