Espagne, 1779 481 
Printed Material 
Gazeta de Madrid , May 18, 21, 23, June 4, 22, July 2, 
6, 16, 1779 (ff. 91, 105, 109, 216, 301, 358, 383, 435). 
[Printed in Doniol: Vergennes to Montmorin, May 8, 
14, 29, June 7, 28, July 2, nos. 33, 36, 42, 45 (III, 771- 
772n.; 770-771; 777-780; 791n., 793; 790; IV, 233n., 239.); 
Montmorin to Vergennes, May 17, June 20, nos. 41, 54 (III, 
771, 811; 795n., 815-817); Vergennes to Floridablanca, May 
29 (III. 812-813); Floridablanca to Vergennes, May 17 (III, 
811-812); Vergennes to Breteuil, June 29 (III, 819-821); 
Aranda, memoir, June 21 (III, 814-815) ; Spanish court, 
letter to agents abroad, June 21 (III, 814).] 
[See MVC, May 17, 29, June 4, 20, July 3, 13, 31, 1779.] 
595 (1779, Aug. -Sept.) 
Correspondence of Aranda, Bessiere, Caste jon, Du Chaf- 
fault, Floridablanca, Louis XVI, Montmorin, d'Orvilliers, 
Sartine, Vergennes 
Subjects Treated 
Attitude of France, Spain, and Britain towards U.S.; 
project to drive English out of Florida; use of Havana 
squadron in U.S.; British peace proposals to France; Spanish 
aid to Americans; reasons opposed to sending of A. Lee to 
Madrid; British acceptance of Austrian mediation; French 
insistence upon U.S. recognition as first peace term; Miralles 
in U.S.; arrival of La Luzerne in Boston; operations at 
Charleston; capture of Stony Point; British devastations; 
U.S. requests for large amounts of supplies and munitions; 
military operations in Florida planned as joint Spanish- 
American expedition; Spanish refusal to give U.S. gratuitous 
assistance; subsidies necessary to U.S. for Florida expedition 
(ff. 22, 32, 51, 61, 99. 106, 110, 168, 232, 249, 259, 319, 
384, 424, 428, 441, 468). 
Attitude of France and Spain towards Britain; joint 
plan of campaign; peaceful overtures of England; Spanish 
manifesto against England; refusal of mediation offered by 
Austria (ff. 22, 32, 43, 49, 51, 54, 61, 83, 96, 103, 140, 
181, 187, 194, 206, 236, 249, 259, 269, 357, 428). 
Permission to return to France from La. sought by 
Dufossat (f . 373) . 
Animals sent to French islands by Spain (ff. 61, 103, 
127). 
Extracts from consular correspondence concerning U.S. 
(ff. 65, 91, 227) . 
Joint Spanish-American expedition against Florida 
(ff. 424, 428, 441, 468) . 
Fleet movements, Byron, Du Chaf fault, d'Estaing, Hardy, 
La Motte-Piquet ; success of d'Estaing in West Indies (ff . 
51, 110, 122, 208, 211, 227, 232, 249, 268, 269, 275, 289, 
298, 319, 344, 357, 369, 384, 440, 450). 
