990 Memoires et Documents 
Parliamentary subsidies and troop levies (f . 174) . 
Arrival of Franklin at Nantes; American defeat on 
Lake Champlain; retreat of Washington; British capture 
of forts Lee and Washington; failure of negotiation for 
exchange of coastal areas in Newfoundland (ff . 176-178) . 
1777. Arrival in France of Franklin, Lee, and 
Deane ; their proposals; Vergennes' ideas as to their 
motives; French annual subsidy to Americans; new American 
requests; offer of U.S. to guarantee French possessions; 
French refusal, and reasons therefor (ff . 291-293) . 
French transmission to Spain of American proposals, 
and temporary refusal of American alliance; Spanish 
cooperation; Franco-Spanish preparations; British proposal 
of reciprocal disarmament; refusal of France and Spain 
(ff • 295-296) . 
British capture of Rhode Island; British authorization 
of privateering against Americans (f . 298) . 
American defeat of Hessians; British attack on Con- 
necticut; parliamentary subsidies for continuance of war 
(ff . 302-303) . 
Delay in departure of French fishers for Newfoundland; 
Spanish subsidy for Americans; secret conferences of 
Franklin with British; rupture of these conferences; 
British proposal to France of reciprocal disarmament; 
reply of Maurepas; Spanish desire for French declaration 
of war on Britain; French refusal, and reasons for it (ff. 
305-308) . 
Spanish refusal to permit A. Lee to enter Spain; 
discussion of this matter by Vergennes and Floridablanca; 
imperious attitude of British; French moderation; French 
conduct towards American privateers (ff . 311-312) . 
Spanish memoir to accelerate war; extensive discussions 
on this subject; need of open assistance to Americans; 
Vergennes proposes declaration of war; Franco-Spanish 
complaints against Britain (ff . 315-316) . 
Spanish belligerent attitude changes; Spain consents 
to send secret emissaries to America (ff . 318-319) . 
Capture of Ticonderoga by Burgoyne ; French rejection 
of insulting proposals made to her by Britain (f . 321) . 
French measures for defense of French colonies; reply 
to British overtures (f . 323) . 
Discouragement of American deputies in Paris; French 
proposals to Spain; American memoir to France; Vergennes 
proposes that Spain provide subsidy for Americans (ff . 
325-326) . 
Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga; meeting of British 
parliament; British capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne 
prisoner of war; uneasiness of Vergennes due to surrender 
of Burgoyne; new memoir to Louis XVI by American com- 
missioners; favorable reply accorded it; French resolution 
to enter war; Spain notified; refusal of Americans to 
negotiate with British before recognition of independence; 
news of impending Franco -American treaty sent to Congress 
(ff . 328-334) . 
