In the 18th century, people only had letters ... and the British went on to seize hundreds of French ships at sea. According to Morieux, despite its collection of excellent ships during this ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied ... the letters were mostly addressed to the crew of the Galatée warship, and the French postal administration ...

Researchers determined nine historic cannons displayed for the past 60 years at Fort William Henry were originally aboard a British warship that sank in the Florida Keys in the 18th century ...

“I could spend the night writing to you… I am your forever faithful wife,” wrote Marie Dubosc to her husband Louis Chamberlain, the first lieutenant of a French warship in 1758.