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Sep 11, 2026
speaker_17GUEST
This is tremendously frustrating for Washington.
speaker_17GUEST
If the French Navy can support American operations along the eastern seaboard, just maybe Washington will be able to trap a British army.
speaker_14GUEST
Throughout this part of the war, George Washington had been really focused on trying to take back New York.
speaker_14GUEST
New York is the British headquarters.
speaker_14GUEST
He has success early on with victories in some of the southern states in South Carolina.
speaker_17GUEST
He had a much smaller army, much more isolated, and Cornwallis also doesn't have a major fleet at his disposal.
speaker_17GUEST
If the French Navy can arrive off the coast of Virginia in time, and if Washington and Rochambeau can coordinate their march southward, maybe they'll be able to surprise Cornwallis.
speaker_15GUEST
Between him and Rochambeau walked around together and had this argument.
PaddyPANELIST
It was guarding them, protecting them when this whole thing happened the other day.
David VanceHOST
Yeah, it just absolutely enrages me that, you know, the French, Adrian, just let me finish this.
David VanceHOST
The French Navy escort these unwanted migrants to the edge of French territorial water and then waiting there to get them are RNLI and Border Force vessels who then bring them.
David VanceHOST
You know, Adrian, that's the frustration.
David VanceHOST
To me, that's just traitorous, I think.
AdrianPANELIST
So the French use the Navy to escort them, but we use a paid civilian service.
AdrianPANELIST
Why isn't our Navy going and welcoming them and escorting them to safety? Yeah.
AdrianPANELIST
Because you
Brent SadlerPANELIST
You have to go in the shipyard.
Brent SadlerPANELIST
Now, the French Navy uses nuc- lowly- lower enriched uranium on their submarines, which means they have to refuel more frequent.
Brent SadlerPANELIST
If you design the submarines with that in mind in the power plant, maybe you can reduce some of the cost, but it does mean you're going in the yard more frequently.
Brent SadlerPANELIST
Uh, it's not, it's one of the reasons why the US doesn't do this.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
André de Maricourt, in the magazine France Etats Unis, also expressed one of the objects of its formation by saying that it "...sealed, in a solemn manner and in a hereditary way, the friendships of two people." One of the first acts of the meeting of May 13, 1783, was to extend membership to certain grades of French officers, declaring that this society, deeply impressed with a sense of the generous assistance this country has received from France, and desires for perpetuating the friendships which have been formed, and so happily subsisted between the officers of the Allied forces in the prosecution of the war, direct that the President General transmit, as soon as may be, to each of the characters hereafter named, a medal containing the Order of the Society.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
For example, His Excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary, His Excellency the Sir Gerard, Late Minister Plenipotentiary, Their Excellencies the Count de Stung, the Count de Grasse, the Count de Barras, the Chevalier de Touche, Admirals and Commanders in the Navy, His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau, Commander-in-Chief, and the Generals and Colonels of his Army, and acquaint them that the society does itself the honor to consider them members.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
George Washington, who was previously mentioned, was elected the first president of the society, who wrote Rochambeau this letter.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
To the Count de Rochambeau.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
One of the interesting facts in connection with the Cincinnati is that the medal or jewel of the society was designed by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant of the Continental Corps of Engineers, who later planned the capital of this country.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
The society voted that Bald Eagle, carrying the emblems on its breast, be established as the order of the society, and that the ideas of Major L'Enfant respecting it and the manner of its being worn by the members be adopted.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
On February 24th, 1784, the officers of the French Navy, who had been admitted to the Order of the Cincinnati, presented General Washington, through His Excellency the Count de Stone, the ranking naval officer, the Eagle of the Cincinnati, richly set in diamonds.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
General Washington was so deeply touched by the gift of the Diamond Eagle by the Count d'Estaing on the part of the officers of the French Navy that he thenceforth wore his eagle instead of the one he had purchased.
Peter MooreHOST
Instead, a variety of innovative weapons, Congreve's rockets, Fulton's submarine and torpedoes, had been tested with varying success.
Peter MooreHOST
When Lord Mulgrave, the first Lord of the Admiralty, had suggested to Cochrane that an assault be made against the French fleet at Rochefort with fire ships, an idea flashed into his mind.
Peter MooreHOST
He had some familiarity with Basque roads.
Peter MooreHOST
He knew that it was formidably defended by the Citadel on the Eel decks, and that its tricky geography posed numerous problems for the attackers.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
Henry Terrier, the second officer of the Half Moon, in frock coat and silk hat, looked every inch a nobleman and gentleman.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
What his past had been only he knew, but his polished manners, his knowledge of navigation and seamanship, and his leaning toward the ways of the martinet in his dealing with the men beneath him had led Skipper Sims to assume that he had once held a commission in the French Navy, from which he doubtless had been kicked in disgrace.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
The man was cold, cruel, of a moody disposition, and quick to anger.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
He had been signed as second officer for this cruise through the intervention of Devine and Clinker.
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Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
They all knew that a pleasure yacht like the Lotus was well supplied with small arms, and that at the first intimation of danger there would be plenty of men aboard to repel assault, and at all probability with entire success.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
That there were excellent grounds for Terrier's belief that he could win Barbara Harding's hand with such a flying start as his daring plan would have assured him may not be questioned, for the man was cultivated, polished, and in a sinister way, good-looking.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
The title that he had borne upon the occasion of his visit to the yacht was, all unknown to his accomplices, his by right of birth, so that there was nothing other than a long-dead scandal in the French Navy that might have proved a bar to enough fiancés such as he dreamed of.
Joe DeNoiaNARRATOR
And now to be thwarted in the last moment, it was unendurable.
David VanceHOST
It should not be- it should be given the instruction not to get, not to in- in- in, you know, engage.
David VanceHOST
When the, if, if the French Navy, as they did the other day, uh, escort a migrant dinghy into English territorial waters, that should be met by a Royal Navy vessel turning it around.
David VanceHOST
It shouldn't be bet- met with an RNLI taxi.
David VanceHOST
And of course, the migrants know this.
Jeremy KyleHOST
How are you?
Chris PhilpGUEST
I'm doing OK, battling on, and I survived my encounter with the French Navy on the English Channel and my encounter with the people smuggler and the illegal immigrants on the beaches of France a few weeks ago, but glad to be back safely on British soil now.
Jeremy KyleHOST
Glad to...
Jeremy KyleHOST
I want to ask you loads of things.
Robert SpitzerGUEST
And, you know, so she comes over and she takes the water and they arrest her.
Robert SpitzerGUEST
And then they find out, oh, you know, you're the wife of the admiral, you know, in charge of the whole French Navy.
Robert SpitzerGUEST
Yes, I am.
Robert SpitzerGUEST
So of course they give her back the water, charge her 50 francs fine or whatever.
GHOST
100%.
GHOST
And throw in a Marine National.
MattHOST
Yeah, they were working with the Marine National, even with the new ones.
MattHOST
And it was almost a military watch that was one for one that you could buy straight away.
MattHOST
Absolutely.
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