3. The French captured Senegal from a disease-ridden British garrison in February. Their possession of it was confirmed in the Anglo-French peace treaty of 1783 (Cambridge Modern Hist., 6:452, 464; London Chronicle, 20–23 Feb.).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/