Browsing: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 3

2. The new 36-gun Continental frigate Alliance sailed from Boston before the middle of Jan. 1779 and arrived at Brest on 6 Feb.; one of her passengers was Lafayette ( Dict. Amer. Fighting Ships ). Her commanding officer was Pierre Landais, concerning whose controversial naval career and whose relations with the Adamses see JA, Diary and Autobiography , 2:366 and passim.