Primary Sources: American Revolution: France

(the chevalier de Pontgiband) tr. and ed. by Robert B. Douglas.

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.

from Original Documents, most of which are now published for the First Time

A Journal kept by Count William de Deux-Ponts, 1780-81
Translated from the French manuscript, with an introduction and notes, by Samuel Abbott Green.

in 1781-2, as Described in Two Contemporaneous Journals

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.