482 Espagne, 1779 
Important Document 
Sept. 26. Floridablanca to Aranda, plan of 
campaign against England; subsidies needed by U.S.; joint 
Spanish-American attack on Florida arranged through 
Miralles (ff. 412-420). 
Printed Material 
Gazeta de Madrid , Aug. 6, 10, 17, 27, Sept. 7, 10, 
14, 21, 28, 1779 (ff. 45, 87, 131, 199, 278, 292, 323, 377, 
454) . 
Manif iesto de los motivos en que se ha fundado la 
conducta del Rey Chris tianisimo respecto a, la Inglaterra . 
con la Exposicion de los que han guiado el Rey nuestro 
Senor para su modo de proceder con la misma potencia ( f f . 
142-164) . 
[Printed in Doniol: Vergennes to Montmorin, Aug. 6, 
12, Sept. 21, nos. 53, 56, 68 (IV, 339; 340; 432-434); 
Montmorin to Vergennes, Sept. 27, nos. 87, 88 (IV, 331).] 
[See MVC, Aug. 5, Sept. 20, 26, 27, 30, 1779.] 
596 (1779. Oct. -Dec.) 
Correspondence of Aranda, Bessiere, Cordoba, Dufossat, 
Floridablanca, Jose de Galvez, Heredia, Kantoffer, La 
Luzerne, La Perouse, Montmorin, Poirel, Rions, Sartine, 
Vergennes 
Sub.jects Treated 
Attitude of France, Spain, and Britain towards U.S.; 
advantages to be derived from expelling British from 
Antilles and Florida; American defeat at Penobscot; joint 
Spanish-American expedition against Florida; Spanish subsi- 
dies to U.S.; J. Adams made plenipotentiary for peace; Jay 
assigned to Madrid in place of A. Lee; steps to be taken 
to drive British from Gulf of Mexico; success of John Paul 
Jones; aid sent U.S. by France; joint Franco-Spanish oper- 
ations; wreck of French convoy from America; Rodney sent 
to America; Spanish difficulty in furnishing subsidies to 
U.S.; Spanish request for French troops to aid in recapturing 
Pensacola; desire of Vergennes to confine war to America; 
Johnstone's proposal of neutrality to Spain (ff. 5, 20, 54, 
58, 74, 78, 87, 109, 135, 165, 170, 179, 193, 199, 220, 224, 
243, 245, 248, 255, 269, 307, 323, 351. 366, 370, 371, 388, 
407, 423, 435, 440, 444, 456, 458, 468). 
Galvez' expedition against British in Mississippi 
(f . 468) . 
Extracts from consular correspondence concerning Ameri- 
can affairs (ff. 48, 103, 216, 355, 357, 359, 413, 446, 471). 
Recall of Favre from La. (ff . 62, 102, 114, 134, 163, 
164) . 
Desire of Dufossat to return to France from La. (ff . 96, 
346, 386, 465) . 
Dubrocq's claim to estate in La. (f. 198). 
Claim to estate in La. by widow of Noyan (ff. 305, 346). 
