Very Squaly weather, came to Sail at 4 o’clock P. M. saluted the french Admiral & rec’d nine guns in return this is the first salute ever pay’d the American flagg.
SOURCE: Dr. Ezra Green, Diary of Ezra Green, M.D., Surgeon on Board the Continental Ship “Ranger,” Under John Paul Jones, from November 1, 1777 to September 27, 1778, p. 19
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