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Primary Sources: American Revolution: France
primary sources on the American Revolution (1775–1783)
Correspondence of the first French minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes, with an historical introduction and notes by John J. Meng.
As described in two contemporaneous journals.
Edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own." cf. p. 21.
The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym. cf. Pref.
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